Largest study of women in the workplace shows we’re not making progress and points to critical blind spots: we don’t fully see the barriers women face, and we have a low bar for what equality looks like. READ MORE.
The gender gap in academia at the faculty level has been well documented. Male faculty far outnumber women, particularly in the STEM disciplines, though the gap has narrowed in recent decades. It’s also no secret that the rate of academic entrepreneurship is on the rise: the number of startups formed out of university research has […]
The benefits to a company of having female representation on its board are significant. However, there is a gap — more like a massive chasm — between the presence of women in the workforce and the number of women on corporate boards. Here are some immediate steps that we — both men and women — […]
“If you think women in tech is just a pipeline problem, you haven’t been paying attention” Read the article here. https://medium.com/@racheltho/if-you-think-women-in-tech-is-just-a-pipeline-problem-you-haven-t-been-paying-attention-cb7a2073b996
Congratulations to the winners – and to all participants – of the fourth cohort of Empowering Women in Technology Startups (ewits). The 50 women who completed the program at the April 16 investor pitch brought the total number of women empowered since the program’s inception to 200. On Thursday, the winning team took home iPads. […]
Article from the Harvard Business Review: The 5 Biases Pushing Women Out of STEM
Read the article from The New York Times: For Stanford Class of ’94, a Gender Gap More Powerful Than the Internet
Article from Boston Magazine.com: MIT is Hosting a Breast Pump Hackathon
Article from National Journal: Working Mother, Washington Powerhouse? Good Luck.
Check out the “She Started It Film” documentary trailer.
Article from CNNMoney: Young Women Raise Big Bucks for Startups
Article from Wired-Innovation Insights: Flipping the Script: Inspire Her Mind to Pursue a STEM Career
Article from CNN.com: Why you’re seeing more women and people of color Google Doodles
Article from USA Today: Tech: Where the women and minorities aren’t
Commencement Speech: Shonda Rhimes’ Real Talk for Dartmouth Grads: Dreams Are for Losers
Article from CNN Money: The best country for women entrepreneurs is….
Washington Post article: LEGO will make new female characters with science jobs
eWiTS® was featured in the Business Report of North Central Florida. Read the article here.
The spring 2014 eWiTS® program concluded on Tuesday, June 3 at the program’s Investor Pitch Competition. About 50 women participated in the 10-week program in teams headed by experienced women entrepreneurs. Each team formed a simulated company and created a business plan and investor pitch based on a real technology developed at the University of […]
Jane Muir is the recipient for the UF Office of Sustainability’s 2014 Champions for Change awards in the category of Social Equity for her work with the eWiTS program. Click here to read more.
Read this article from Quartz.com: How one college went from 10% female computer-science majors to 40%
Check out this article from Slate.com: Imposteritis:A Lifelong, but Treatable, Condition
UF President Bernie Machen made a speech at the eighth annual startup showcase, A Celebration of Innovation on March 13, 2014. Click below to read what he said about women innovators/entrepreneurs and eWiTS®: Welcoming Women to Our Innovation Community.
Article from CNN.com Opinion: In largely white male tech world, why capitalism needs an upgrade
Read this article about eWiTS® in the Alligator: Science, technology sessions aimed at helping women entrepreneurs
Here is an article from CNN.com: The CNN 10: Visionary Women
Read this article from Entrepreneur: ‘Visible and Engaged’: Women on Breaking Into the Tech Industry
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Check out the Women’s History Month website: http://womenshistorymonth.gov/about.html
Check out this article from the Gainesville Sun: Women hone their investor pitches to razor sharp
Article from The Atlantic: Marissa Mayer’s Potentially Revolutionary Paternity Leave Policy
Article from Time Magazine: Women are the only adults left in Washington
Read this article from The New York Times: Curtain is Rising on a Tech Premiere with (as usual) a Mostly Male Cast
Article from The New York Times: Why are there still so few women in science?
Check out this article from the Silicon Valley Business Journal: Why hiring women may make your business more money
9-week tech program catering to women returns next month
Applications open for UF program empowering women in tech startups
Scaling up female entrepreneurship from the Policy Forum Blog, Entrepreneurship.org.
Check out this report from the National Center for Women & Information Technology (NCWIT), Women in it: The facts: “The technology industry is one of the fastest-growing industries in the U.S. The United States Department of Labor estimates that by 2018 there will be more than 1.4 million total new computing-related job openings when considering […]
Read this article from CNN.com, Google’s quest to get more women in tech “Google is a company focused on problem solving. It has untold amounts of computing power at its disposal working away to try and solve big problems. But one issue requires a more analog approach: upping the number of female computer engineers.”
Check out this article from CNNMoney.com: Warren Buffett is bullish…on women “In an exclusive essay the Berkshire Hathaway (BRKA, Fortune 500) chairman and CEO explains why women are key to America’s prosperity.”
Check out this article on management advise by Elizabeth Haas Edersheim, Ph.D., Management Lessons of a Lifelong Student “I’ve learned that organizations are the engines of our society and our lives as individuals. We are born in organizations, supplied by organizations, informed by organizations, educated by organizations, employed by organizations, and ultimately buried by them. […]
Read this article from The New York Times: A Titan’s How-To on Breaking the Glass Ceiling “Before Sheryl Sandberg, the chief operating officer of Facebook, started to write “Lean In,” her book-slash-manifesto on women in the workplace, she reread Betty Friedan’s “The Feminine Mystique.” Like the homemaker turned activist who helped start a revolution 50 […]
Check out this article from Bloomberg Businessweek: Women Who Run Tech Startups Are Catching Up. “Women-led private technology companies are more capital-efficient, achieve 35 percent higher return on investment, and, when venture-backed, bring in 12 percent higher revenue than male-owned tech companies. That’s according to new research presented at a recent conference in San Francisco […]
Read this analysis by Erin Cadwalader of the Association for Women in Science (AWIS), Policy Analysis: Identification of Barriers to Participation for Women in University Technology Transfer Activities. “Women need to feel invited. Jane Muir, the director of eWITS (Empowering Women in Technology Startups) at the University of Florida has developed a very successful program […]
Jane Muir was recently recognized by the State Science & Technology Institute (SSTI) as one of the top Women Who Shaped Tech-Based Economic Development. Check out the article here: http://www.ssti.org/Digest/digest.php?page=2013/032713#story3 “SSTI spotlights 18 women who have been among the field’s most vital champions. These women have played a central role in drawing attention to the […]
Address the challenge of finding start-up CEOs by focusing on women featured in Technology Transfer Tactics: “‘As the CEOs were talking, I looked around the room and realized that I was the only one who could wear a skirt with any integrity,’ says Muir. ‘I made a pact with myself then and there: We were […]
Read the full article from the Harvard Business Review Blog Network here. “Easing into the New Year, one big hope we have for 2013 is that women continue to bridge the gender gap in terms of pay equality and access to leadership positions. So much of the news was good last year: women were better […]
Click here to read an article in Women 2.0 by Mary Strother, Managing Director of Athenian Venture Partners: “Career moves are often among the biggest life decisions that we will ever make. For women, I feel this rings particularly true. It is typically not easy, and as I have found, the best opportunities are usually […]
Checkout this TEDx Video: “Jennifer Bonnett, founder of the websites eTour and StartupChicks (among others), explores the underrepresentation of women in the entrepreneurial sector and suggests ways for women to be more successful entrepreneurs.”