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What’s Holding Back Women in Tech?
Keywords: Tech Women, Silicon Valley,
Intel's bold plan to attract more women and minorities with a $300 million fund and plan for a 14% increase in women and minorities by 2020
01/06/2015
The plan was announced by Intel Corp.'s CEO in Jan. 2015 as tech companies in Silicon Valley come under criticism for not encouraging minorities and women to play a larger role at their companies. The $300 million will go to engineering scholarships and to help women and minorities once they join the company. The plan to increase diversity is a bold effort at one of Silicon Valley's founding companies.
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Hurting economic growth and productivity in America- the lack of paid leave for women
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Women earn 59% of higher education degrees in America, by one estimate. Their contribution to science and technological progress would be higher with paid leave for maternity and other reasons. Participation of women in the workforce is being addressed in Japan and Germany, with calls for better child cares facilities and family friendly workplace policies. Strangely one hears less of this in the U.S. even at a time when participation in the workforce for women is declining along with an overall drop in the labor force participation rate.
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Paid Leave Encourages Female Employees to Stay
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Young women tech talent event in San Francisco, June 2015
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Silicon Valley: Perks for Some Workers, Struggles for Parents
New York Times 04/07/2015
How to Attract Female Engineers
New York Times 04/27/2015
Girls Who Code From Around Globe
Wall Street Journal 06/26/2015
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Wall Street Journal 03/22/2016
Sheryl Sandberg: Women Are Leaning In—but They Face Pushback
WSJ 09/27/2016
Working parents, families and Silicon Valley- the search for parent friendly culture in 2015-2016
04/07/2015
A former Chief Technology Officer of Facebook, who has started his own startup Quip, says the culture for mothers of children, working parents and families is not what it should be. He is raising two young children. Mothers at companies in Silicon Valley say they are sometimes the only parent in a team among many 20+ years employees. The culture is not friendly to women and families when it comes to time needed for helping raise a family.
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Silicon Valley: Perks for Some Workers, Struggles for Parents
New York Times 04/07/2015
Tech Expansion Overruns Cities in California’s Silicon Valley
Wall Street Journal 04/27/2015
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New York Times 04/27/2015
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Wall Street Journal 03/22/2016
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Washington Post 11/06/2016
How lack of family friendly maternity leave and paid leave hurts women in business and the workforce in America
07/28/2014
The U.S. is the only country of western developed nations that has no national paid maternity leave. California has introduced paid maternity leave. As a result only 59% of American women enjoy paid maternity leave, according to one estimate. The result is lower labor force participation in the U.S. for women, hurting economic growth, hurting the contribution women can make to business and other sectors of the economy, and to science and technological progress. Claire Cain Miller points this out in this exceptional report in the NYT.
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Paid Leave Encourages Female Employees to Stay
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Engage Girls With Tech Education, Leadership Early, Women CIOs Say
Wall Street Journal 12/04/2014
Paid Maternity Leave Is Good for Business
Wall Street Journal 12/19/2014
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The Global Flight From the Family
Wall Street Journal 02/22/2015
Would You Rather Be a New Mom in the U.S. or Germany?
Wall Street Journal 03/10/2015
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