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New ‘smart bra’ will monitor women’s heart health
A startup out of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology is creating a wearable specifically aimed at better monitoring and understanding women’s cardiovascular health – and it’s a bra. Bloomer Tech is developing flexible, washable circuits with sensors to be sewn into the lining of a bra. The smart bra device will monitor electrocardiogram signals from the ...
What it’s like to have male mentors as a woman in tech
Susan Kelly, a director of technology at Verizon’s Innovation Labs in Waltham, Mass., has been in the tech world for 20 years, working as an engineer and manager at tech startups and companies. In part, she credits her success to a succession of mentors. Pretty much all of them were men. That’s not surprising if ...
Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff calls out tech execs on gender pay gap
Salesforce Chief Executive Marc Benioff spent $3 million last year adjusting salaries to ensure that men and women are paid equally within the company. Now he makes a habit of asking other tech CEOs when they’re going to do the same. “Industries have spent billions of dollars to put in human resource management systems,” he ...
Women will revolutionize tech, but only if they’re included first
Gender in tech is often discussed as a tacked-on afterthought – a program to encourage more equal participation, a panel discussion at a conference, a think piece shaming the tech industry for not doing more to create safe spaces for women. But addressing gender in tech serves a greater purpose than political correctness. Tech will ...