March 8 is celebrated around the world as International Women’s Day and in the U.S., the month celebrates Women’s History Month, a tradition dating back to 1911.

Many women have helped the world advance, from Sappho who was regarded by Plato as one of the great 10 poets, Joan of Arc who inspired a French revolution against English occupation, Florence Nightingale who changed the role and perception of the nursing profession, Marie Curie who was the first woman to win a Nobel Prize, Rosa Parks’ action that led the most significant civil rights rights legislation in American history, Margaret Thatcher who was the first female Prime Minister of Great Britain and many others who have used their knowledge and skills to make the world a better place for all.

Yet the tech sector is still  a man’s world, even as women have proven over the years they can hang with the big boys, some running corporations dominated by men.  The feat didn’t come without its obstacles, some of which women deal with in current settings.

During last year’s Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing celebration, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella got an earful from women disturbed by his seemingly sexist comments regarding equal pay in the workplace. For Nadella, such matters will work themselves out. The insensitive comments were made during Satya’s on-stage interview during the Grace Hopper event, with host Maria Klawe. The president of Harvey Mudd College, Klawe spoke to SiliconANGLE just moments after her headline-making interview with Nadella, who took the software CEO’s comments in stride.

Watch Klawe’s full interview below as well as other featured women during the Grace Hopper Celebration here:

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Women in Tech Wednesdays

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International Women’s Day isn’t the only time of year SiliconANGLE pays tribute to the ladies in tech. theCUBE, SiliconANGLE’s premier video production, has a weekly segment called Women in Tech, which features prominent women who are conquering the tech world. You can watch interviews with FirstRain CEO Penny Herscher, Inside Edition Anchor Deborah Norville, Principal at Ignition Partners Rachel Chalmers and many others.

Women Who Make America

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In February, KQED, a PBS member virtual channel, in partnership with Business Women’s Network, brought documentary series “MAKERS: Women Who Make America – Women in Business”, to SAP’s Palo Alto Campus. The series, which started in 2013, deals with the many struggles women have had to face throughout history as well as how women have surpassed these trials.

Wikibon Senior Analyst Jeff Frick dropped by the event for theCUBE, interviewing SAP Chief Learning Officer Jenny Dearborn as well as Renée Cullinan of Stop Meeting Like This, Ann Barlow of Peppercomm Strategic Communications and Rachael Myrow of KQED.

Watch the interviews below:

The Women of IBM

theCUBE’s recent coverage of IBM InterConnect, the fusion of IBM’s three biggest events – Impact, Innovate and Pulse – featured several great women from the tech industry such as IBM GM of Storage and Software Defined Jamie Thomas, IBM GM of Developer Ecosystem Sandy Carter, snd IBM Cloud CMO Nancy Pearson, to name a few. Over the weekend, interviews with these great women were featured on SiliconANGLE.tv to comemorate International Women’s Day.
Watch the interviews of the great women in tech below:

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