As we continue to get a strong start to 2020, we’re following so many stories of women’s leadership—from obstacles to be overcome and inequality that women still face to initiatives empowering women, strategies to get ahead, and inspirational leaders in tech and finance. Check out a few stories below, and keep striving, thriving, and helping one another!
Melinda Gates Names Chicago First Gender-Inclusive Tech Hub, from Forbes—“Pivotal Ventures is teaming up with with Break Through Tech and SecondMuse to launch GET (Gender Equality in Tech) Cities. Their plan for increasing equality in the burgeoning Chicago tech world is three-fold: getting more women interested in pursuing tech careers, creating an inclusive environment which generates opportunities for these women, and ensuring that women of color are provided the same pathways and opportunities. Here are the details of how they are reinventing the tech hub.”
The Top 10 Mistakes That Keep Women Entrepreneurs From Scaling to $1 Million, from Entrepreneur—“Where are the million-dollar women? In 2018, just 1.7 percent of women-owned businesses generated more than $1 million in revenue, and the challenges are even greater for women of color entrepreneurs. Why is it that even though women own 40 percent of all businesses in the U.S., making "real money" is more the exception than it is the rule? What's getting in our way when it comes to business ideas that make bank?”
LinkedIn Co-Founder Blue Outlines Risks of Blockchain Sexism, from Cointelegraph—“According to The National, the WEF has evaluated that it will take 257 years for women to have the same economic opportunities as men. In contrast, to date, women reportedly account for only 30 percent of tech-related jobs such as AI, blockchain, software engineering and cloud computing.”
How Shelley Zalis Strives to Bring Gender Balance to the Tech World, from VentureBeat—“Technology and automation and AI will eliminate a lot of entry-level positions. Those positions are held by women. That will impact change. When you look at a lot of the predictions of not even filling the pipeline for technology — these are big challenges, but also big opportunities in areas where we need to do a better job of filling the pipeline, making sure we groom the talent from high school through getting into the workplace so we don’t see such a big drop of women, even at the entry level. And it’s why we need more women in tech to begin with. Even though AI is going to automate a lot of jobs, you still need to have human input around how you formulate what you’re looking for.”
The Heroines STEM: Ten Women in Science You Should Know, from CNN—“despite challenges of gender discrimination and lack of recognition in the scientific community, countless inspiring women in these fields have made historic contributions to science and helped advance understanding of the world around us. Many were not recognized in their own lifetimes, but their achievements have helped generations of female scientists to come.”
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