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We talked to women at NASA, where a third of employees are female
Twenty-five miles southeast of a massive gathering of 15,000 women and men for the Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Technology, employees at NASA’s Johnson Space Center are training astronauts to work aboard the International Space Station and – eventually, they hope – on Mars. How does NASA fare when it comes to gender equality ...
How ThoughtWorks became tech’s most women-friendly company
Thousands of women and men gathered in an NBA arena to launch the Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Technology Wednesday morning – T-shirt cannons firing, lights flashing and music blasting from a high-energy DJ set. Amid the increasing energy and celebration, ThoughtWorks Inc. Chief Technology Officer Rebecca Parsons (above) took to the stage to deliver a ...
Exploring the unanswered questions about gender and tech
My first introduction to the world of technology came from the inside of a dumpster. My father, a HAM radio operator and lover of all things mechanical, took his four children on yearly trips to the wireless museum and taught us to take things apart. The most exciting adventures happened at the trash bins behind ...