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...
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...
by Shelley Wood | Oct 8, 2017 | Articles, Featured
Hi Everyone, As we head into Fall, I want to share my current activities: spearheading work on retaining women in high-tech, supporting universities who want to develop stronger programs in HCI including Contextual Design, and of course responding to clients...
by Derek Hoiem | Oct 8, 2017 | Articles1, Featured
You’ve waited a long time — now it’s here! After 18 years, the classic Contextual Design book has been retired and the new edition has been released! Contextual Design 2nd Edition: Design for Life is completely rewritten, including how we have changed...
by Karen | Jun 4, 2017 | Blog, Featured
Over the last 18 months I’ve been travelling to different venues to give talks on the Women in Technology Retention Project. The audience has been women and some men. The ideas resonate with women but men also want to know what they can do to help. As one male manager...
by Shelley Wood | Apr 22, 2017 | Blog, Featured
Karen’s article in Network Computing outlines the critical factors companies should focus on in order to retain women working in IT. The article is a great introduction to work being done by the Women in Tech Project.
