I’m so excited to share this story from the BBC about a company called littleBits. It was created by a woman named Ayah Bdeir. What do they make? littleBits (spelled lower case L, upper case B, all one word) consists of tiny…
Teaching Coding to Girls
When do we start forming ideas about what’s cool? The NY Times just did a short piece about coding for girls and when those gaps between girls and boys in computer classes really show up in full force. The piece is written…
CEO Woman
Marissa Meyer is the CEO of Yahoo. When she was hired, she was pregnant with her first child. This lengthy article gives quite a bit of background about how she is viewed as the CEO and what expectations there are…
Good Work by Good People
Most days, my news feeds bring me news about inspiring and empowering projects in education. Today was one of those days. There’s a journalist who has committed 7 years of his life to walking from one continent to the next.…
Happy 2014!
I’m thinking of revitalizing this blog. It’s a new year and fresh starts are always a good thing, right? I could say it all started with the “Zero to Hero” series by the folks at WordPress. But truthfully, they are…
Girls in Children’s Literature
There was a study conducted by Janice McCabe at Florida State University in 2011. She looked at over 6,000 children’s books from the past century and found that central characters in the books were female in less than one third.…
When Women are Science Reporters
I don’t know whether to scream or sigh about this NPR story. Actually, I am very impressed with Emily Graslie, a science reporter who now works at the Chicago Field Museum and created a few videos to go along with…
Grant Program Outreach for Middle School Girls
Now here’s a great idea! If your middle school is trying to support girls to learn and love technology, this grant program can help. It’s sponsored by the National Center for Women in IT. The program is called AspireIT and…
Praising Girls
This article is not directly about women in IT but it does highlight some important research about giving praise to girls in the right way to make a positive difference later on. Praise that helps girls see they should stick…
HootSuite CEO Writes about Women in Tech
I was glad to see the CEO of HootSuite writing about the women in technology issue. Here’s his article, posted on LinkedIn. Ryan Holmes writes about what his company has experienced in its hiring processes in terms of numbers of…