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Rights

At a time when 50 percent of young adults say that they’re fearful for the future of their country, these mock elections may be important teaching tools (Ian Aberle/Flickr)
Democracy

Why voting in mock elections may lead to the real thing

A young child plays under the supervision of childcare workers at the Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing, a renown tech conference. (Photo by Alicia Miles/GroundTruth)
Rights

This is why childcare is key to retaining talent in the tech industry

By Alicia Mies and Peter Maroulis HOUSTON — Lucy Leon, glasses perched on her head, shuffles papers with the...

Nov 07, 2016
Rights

What it’s like to have male mentors as a woman in tech

Susan Kelly, a director of technology at Verizon’s Innovation Labs in Waltham, Massachusetts, has been in the tech...

Nov 01, 2016
Rights

Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff calls out other tech execs on gender pay gap

Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff spent $3 million last year adjusting salaries to ensure that men and women are...

Oct 22, 2016
Pam August is the flight operations directorate at NASA. She Manages flight control for astronauts and mechanical maintenance for the space systems. (Photo by Peter Maroulis/GroundTruth)
Rights

We talked to women at NASA, where one third of employees are female

Twenty-five miles southeast of a massive gathering of 15,000 women and men for the Grace Hopper Celebration of...

Oct 21, 2016
Megan Smith, CTO of the United States, speaks at a recruiting event at the Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing in Houston, Texas.
Rights

Voices from the world’s largest gathering of female technologists

The Grace Hopper Women Celebration of Women in Computing drew 14,000 women and 1,000 men from 83 different...

Oct 21, 2016
Rebecca Parson, CTO of ThoughtWorks, accepted the 2016 award for Top Companies for Women Technologists, presented by the Anita Borg Institute. (O'Reily Conference/Flickr)
Rights

We sat down with the CTO of tech’s most women-friendly company. Here’s what she said.

HOUSTON — Thousands of women and men gathered in an NBA arena to launch the Grace Hopper Celebration of...

Oct 20, 2016
Rights

The ‘unanswered questions’ about gender and tech

My first introduction to the world of technology came from the inside of a dumpster. My father, a...

Oct 18, 2016
Women hold just 22.5 percent of top leadership roles in across major tech companies such as Google, Amazon, Apple and Facebook.
Rights

Women will revolutionize tech, but they have to be included first

Gender in tech is often discussed as a tacked-on afterthought – a program to encourage more equal participation,...

Oct 18, 2016
Rights

Polish government reverses course on abortion bill after mass protest

It was pouring rain, but across Poland, women donned in black and holding umbrellas flooded the streets Monday....

Oct 05, 2016
Contestants compete in the Mister and Miss Pride competition. (Photo by Diana Zeyneb Alhindawi/GroundTruth)
Photography

A look at Uganda’s last pride week, now crushed by brutal homophobia

Uganda's last Pride celebration, which honors its LGBT community with a parade and other events, took place one year ago...

Sep 19, 2016
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