by Shelley Wood | May 1, 2018 | Blog
Hi Everyone, As you know, I’ve changed my work focus to shifting the paradigm for how companies address retaining women and diverse professionals in technology. Over the last four years, with the help of many volunteers, we’ve started initiatives that have led to...
by Shelley Wood | Apr 30, 2018 | calendar entry
In this recording of a YouTube Live Event, Karen covered the latest from the Women in High Tech Retention (WIT-R) Project. She introduced the key retention factors, and then shared some of the interventions, along with some exercises you can try out. Watch it here....
by Shelley Wood | Mar 1, 2018 | calendar entry
The Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing conference is the world’s largest gathering of women technologists. It is produced by the Anita Borg Institute and presented in partnership with ACM. This year, Karen and Carol Farnsworth of Facebook will be...
by Shelley Wood | Nov 12, 2017 | Articles, Blog, Featured
Any discussion of women’s experience in technology companies eventually turns to some discussion of men’s “bad behavior” — and I’m not talking about the awful prevalence of sexual harassment. Women in our Women in Tech research commonly complain about “being...
by Shelley Wood | Oct 16, 2017 | Articles, Featured
First, thank you to everyone who took the Women in Tech project’s initial research survey! Your answers aided in developing preliminary findings and allowed us to fine-tune the survey for this next phase. We’re now including survey participants from...
