by Shelley Wood | Sep 26, 2018 | Blog, Featured
In April I launched WITops.org, a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization that is dedicated to developing knowledge and practical techniques to help technology companies engage and retain women and other diverse persons. We build actionable tested processes, techniques,...
by Shelley Wood | Sep 25, 2018 | Blog, Featured
The International Conference on Engineering, Technology and Innovation (ICE/IEEE ITMC) is one of the premier conferences from the IEEE Technology and Engineering Management Society (IEEE TEMS). A paper co-written by Karen Holtzblatt and Nicola Marsden of Heilbronn...
by Shelley Wood | Mar 4, 2018
Karen is co-leading an exciting new SIG at CHI. To set the stage for the designathon, Karen and co-presenter Nicola Marsden will share the findings from a worldwide survey of women and men that reveal the underlying reasons for low retention. SIG participants will...
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 | Oct 9, 2017 | Blog, Featured
I’ve now read James Damore’s document about diversity at Google multiple times. James Damore is the 28-year old Google developer who wrote a long treatise in which he claimed that Google was an echo chamber of liberal ideas and that hiring women who aren’t good...
