Women Who Tech anonymously surveyed 1,003 tech employees, startup founders, and investors about their experiences in tech and startups. The survey identified trends and shifts in the treatment of underrepresented tech founders and employees since 2017.
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Just 27% of private “unicorn” firms worth at least $1 billion have a woman as a founder, according to financial data company Pitchbook. However, that’s up from only 11% of unicorns in 2018.
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Wake Forest has an impressive roster of women powerhouses who are leaders in business, entrepreneurship and tech.
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Bombshell Beer Company is the first women-owned microbrewery in North Carolina, emphasizing the beer industry’s reputation as a boys club.
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Meet Amie Thompson, the 42-year-old Durhamite who is the new CEO and president of Creative Allies, a content marketing firm based out of Raleigh. She’s spent the past 20 years rising up the corporate ladder, and as her recent appointment attests to, there’s not much that can hold her back.
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A recent study used text-mining analysis to highlight the impact that microaggressions have on black faculty in computing disciplines, finding that it contributes to a sense of alienation from the larger higher education community.
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While California’s impulse is clearly on the right side of history, the way the rule was enacted is so misguided that it might do more harm than good. Here’s why.
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Alicia Park talks Tech Girlz, a non-profit organization based out of Philadelphia focused on exposing young women to careers and opportunities in tech by partnering with volunteers from the business community.
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In the extended cut of our conversation with Momentum Learning co-founder and CEO Jessica Mitsch, Laney Tipton delves into the why behind the fully immersive coding school in an age when the options for continuing education are rampant.
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