Mulheres buscam mais espaço e diversidade no mercado de tecnologia. Novo livro de Walter Isaacson resgata precursoras da tecnologia pouco lembradas, em momento em que disparidade salarial e numérica entre os gêneros entra no foco de empresas como Google e Microsoft Por Ligia Aguilhar A programadora Camila Achutti ganhou um estágio no Google após ganhar visibilidade com seu blog sobre mulheres na computação.
FOTO: Arquivo Pessoas SÃO PAULO – Foi pelas mãos de uma mulher que o primeiro algoritmo para computador foi escrito, no século 19. Foi ideia de uma atriz de Hollywood o sistema que serviu como base para a criação do celular. As mulheres “esquecidas” pela tecnologia são um dos temas centrais do novo livro de Walter Isaacson, biógrafo de Steve Jobs, Os Inovadores: Uma biografia da revolução digital. O assunto veio à tona quando o Google divulgou em maio um relatório sobre sua diversidade, no qual revela que apenas 30% dos seus funcionários em todo o mundo são mulheres, 2% são negros e 3% são hispânicos. Negócios. Women At The FrontierWomen At The Frontier. Www.intel.com/content/dam/www/public/us/en/documents/pdf/women-and-the-web.pdf.
O que estas mulheres de sucesso gostariam de ter dito a si mesmas aos 22 anos de idade. If I Were 22: 80+ Influencers Share Lessons from Their Youth. This post is part of a series in which Influencers share lessons from their youth.
Read all the stories here. Each year for a few days in May, age gets to bestow its wisdom on youth and anyone who’s over 22 has advice for anyone who’s not. Youth may roll its eyes and shrug, that wisdom nonetheless lives on in a corner of the mind, often to be dissected and understood much later in life. This week and next, that wisdom also lives on LinkedIn, where 80+ of our Influencers – the top minds in business in every industry from retail to media, tech or healthcare – share lessons from their youth and what their few more years of life can teach the class of 2014 and every young professional.
Let’s get that #1, best-seller intimation out of the way first: follow your bliss. Not so, says Bloomberg editor-at-large Tom Keene, who argues the need for a real job is very… real. One of those traps is believing that status, money and long hours make success. Technovation 2014 Talk. Web Women Want, por Claudia Melo. Silicon Valley: How can it attract and keep more women? 10 November 2013Last updated at 18:57 ET From Twitter lacking a single female on its board to sexist prank apps at the TechCrunch Disrupt conference in San Francisco, the past few weeks have seen increased debate about the discrimination faced by women in Silicon Valley.
The BBC World Service's Newshour gathered a range of women from the world's centre of technological innovation to ask: why aren't there more women in Silicon Valley? While being one of the most high profile women in Silicon Valley, Google's advertising chief Susan Wojcicki frequently sees the challenges women face in technology. Problems can often start before even reaching the workplace. She noticed that her son was taking over access to technology at home, and shutting off his sister.
"My son, I realised, had basically monopolised the computer at home," she says. "My daughter had just given up and let him have it all the time and didn't think computers were that interesting. " Viewpoint: More women needed in technology. 11 October 2012Last updated at 19:14 ET By Belinda Parmar Author of Little Miss Geek Lost in stereotypes in this image from her book, Belinda Parmar wants a change in attitude towards women in technology Walk into most tech companies and you'll be greeted by the same picture - a room made up entirely of men.
You can practically smell the testosterone. The technology industry is still struggling to shake off the image of the male, pizza-guzzling, antisocial nerd - a perception that initiatives like this month's Ada Lovelace day - which celebrates the role of women in technology - and Lady Geek's "Little Miss Geek" campaign, are striving to change. There is no doubt that tech is overwhelmingly male. Although women fill close to half of all jobs in the US economy, they hold less than 25% of jobs in the science and technology sector, according to a government report. So long as shiny new gadgets keep flying off the shelves, what does it matter who's making them? Esther Dyson: Breaking through tech’s glass ceiling.
27 May 2014Last updated at 17:16 ET By Tara McKelvey BBC News Magazine Dyson, speaking at a 2010 conference, is known as a "digital visionary" Esther Dyson has been called "the most influential woman in all the computer world".
After fostering some of the biggest names in technology - and growing wealthy in the process - she is now trying to help people live better with a new health initiative. Dyson leaps up to welcome a visitor to a New York office on a spring morning. It is a typical greeting for her, reflecting an enthusiasm - and impatience - that goes back decades.
At 16, she enrolled at Harvard. Even back then, says her friend Bill Kutik, a software industry analyst, she seemed confident and unafraid. Bill Gates towers above influential women, says Dyson, shown with him in 1984. WEGrow-infographic2. Female Founders Conference videos are now online. Emprende 21. Brazil's teams. Ellas² Technovation. Technovation-Starter-Kit. Technovation Challenge A Course In Entrepreneurship For High School Girls - And Their Mentors. Iridescent. Advancing Women in Technology Globally » Anita Borg Institute.