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Getting More Women Into Tech Is Going To Be Awkward

 Big tech companies are pushing hard to get the word out about their efforts to be more inclusive for women, people of color, and other minority groups. We recently covered Google’s latest efforts to get women involved in tech, including sending “at least one person each” to upcoming tech conferences via a new scholarship program…Read More…

Google’s Tepid Plan To Boost Diversity At Tech Conferences

 Less than a month after admitting it hires too many white dudes, Google is committing to increasing the number of women and minorities in tech to better reflect society at large. Read MoreRead More…

Google’s Made With Code wants to inspire more female coders

According to the American Association of University Women (AAUW), less than 1 percent of high school girls in the US see computer science as part of their future. Google is seeking to increase this figure with a scheme aimed at inspiring girls to code….Read More…

Shonda Rhimes on Dreaming vs. Doing, the Tradeoffs of Success, and the Blinders of Entitlement

“You want to be a writer? A writer is someone who writes every day — so start writing.”Brain Pickings takes 450+ hours a month to curate and edit across the different platforms, and remains banner-free. If it brings you any joy and inspiration, please consider a modest donation – it lets me know I’m doing…Read More…

  • By Maria Popova
  • June 12, 2014
  • Posted in science
  • Also tagged Culture, Education

Anaïs Nin on Abortion and Women’s Reproductive Rights: A Prescient Lament from 1940

“Motherhood is a vocation like any other. It should be freely chosen, not imposed upon woman.”Brain Pickings takes 450+ hours a month to curate and edit across the different platforms, and remains banner-free. If it brings you any joy and inspiration, please consider a modest donation – it lets me know I’m doing something right.Read More…

  • By Maria Popova
  • June 11, 2014
  • Posted in science
  • Also tagged Culture, psychology

About Time: LEGO Producing Female Scientist Playsets

This is a preview of the upcoming LEGO playsets featuring female scientist minfigs. There’s going to be a paleontologist, astronomer, and chemist. The playsets are a departure from LEGO’s predominately male-centric sets, and come at a time when we …Read More…

  • By Geekologie - Gadgets, Gizmos, and Awesome
  • June 5, 2014
  • Posted in Gadgets
  • Also tagged be whatever you want, careers, dare to dream, girls, i want to be an astronaut when i grow up (jk jk i want to be a beach bum -- maybe one with a metal detector), it's about time, lego, plastic modular, , thinking outside the box, Toys, what took so long?

We Have Work to Do: #yesallwomen and the Web

Last week, I plucked an article from our submission inbox. It was about getting stuck in the “friendzone,” and likened women not wanting to date men to both the Holocaust and terrorism. It was obviously ridiculous—a terrible article terribly suited to our magazine. I told the author it was sexist, made a joke about it…Read More…

  • By The fine folks at A List Apart
  • May 29, 2014
  • Posted in Uncategorized
  • Also tagged people, Responsive Web Design, sexism

Happy Memorial Day from TUAW

It’s Memorial Day in the USA, and the TUAW crew is taking time to honor the men and women of our military and spend time with family. Posting will be light today, but we’ll be back in full swing tomorrow. Enjoy your day. It’s almost summer!…Read More…

  • By Dave Caolo
  • May 26, 2014
  • Posted in Uncategorized
  • Also tagged , TUAW, USA

The Oppressed Majority: A Hilarious and Heartbreaking French Short Film about a World in Which Men Are Subject to Sexism

A tragicomic day in the life of a man who struggles for equality in a mirror-image society dominated by women.Brain Pickings takes 450+ hours a month to curate and edit across the different platforms, and remains banner-free. If it brings you any joy and inspiration, please consider a modest donation – it lets me know…Read More…

  • By Maria Popova
  • May 26, 2014
  • Posted in science
  • Also tagged Culture, film

Why developers should test apps on women

On kids too. And counter-tenors. Developer Matt Wiechec had a really positive attitude about our tongue-in-cheek feedback and responded with good news about future updates. “You nailed it in the audio clip Erica,” he wrote. “We did test with women…Read More…

  • By Erica Sadun
  • May 24, 2014
  • Posted in Uncategorized
  • Also tagged Developer Matt Wiechec, future, test

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