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| Chinese women in AI still face barriers to equality, top female scientists say | South China Morning Post |
| Two years ago, Heng Ji, a professor at the computer science department of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, was invited to be a guest speaker at an academic conference in a Chinese city she had never visited before. | |
| Will Covid-19 layoffs buckle advertising’s diversity and inclusion efforts? | The Drum |
| Coronavirus is exacerbating societal inequalities, says the UN. | |
| Oracle Women Score Major Win in Court Battle Over Equal Pay (3) | Bloomberg Law |
| Three female employees at Oracle Corp. scored a major victory in court, gaining the right to represent thousands of others in a gender-discrimination lawsuit over pay, a legal milestone that has eluded women at other tech titans. | |
| In the lockdown, a reminder of the missing histories of women at work | Scroll.in |
| Scant historical records offer us glimpses into their lives | |
| Meet the women driving change in Dutch fintech | EU Startups |
| In 2019, 92% of all funds raised by European companies from venture capital firms went to all-male founding teams. That is an overwhelming percentage. In 2020 we are still debating the role of women in tech, in venture capital firms or in leadership positions in general – even during a global pandemic where women are on the front lines everywhere in the world. | |
| Silicon Valley’s Russian women Meduza speaks to the tech entrepreneurs overlooked by Yury Dud’s latest YouTube sensation | Meduza |
| On April 23, Russian journalist and YouTube star Yury Dud released his latest documentary film — “How the World’s I.T. Capital Works” — about a handful of Russian startups that have found success in Silicon Valley. The three-hour video, which currently has more than 15 million views on YouTube, focuses on eight entrepreneurs, not one of whom is a woman. The oversight angered many viewers and led to allegations of bias against the filmmaker. So far, there’s been no response to the backlash from Dud himself, who might be surprised to learn that Silicon Valley has several Russian businesswomen. Meduza asked some about their work and what they think of “How the World’s I.T. Capital Works.” | |
| Women use VR to beat sexual harassment | AFP |
| SINGAPORE: “Wow, your shirt is really see-through. Are you wearing matching underwear?” the man says lewdly. It´s a virtual reality simulation — but it´s enough to shock 23-year-old Elizabeth Lee into silence as the scene plays out on her headset. The VR technology is part of the Girl, Talk project which is aimed at helping women fight back against harassment in Singapore. “I would think that I would respond in a more confrontational way,” Lee admits. “It felt very physically close… it was just really disgusting to hear such crass remarks. | |
| The pandemic is slated to shutter 30% of US child care centers — and it could prove catastrophic for the careers of American women | Business Insider |
| In the wake of the coronavirus pandemic, many child care centers and schools have closed their doors, forcing parents to teach and care for their kids while also juggling work. Due to government-mandated closures and declining enrollment as parents fear disease exposure, some 60% of licensed child care providers have closed, according to a recent survey from the Bipartisan Policy Center, and many may have to close permanently. One in three daycare providers could permanently shut down if much more government aid is not allocated to the industry, multiple experts told Business Insider. | |
| Golden Era for Women in Tech | Express Computer |
| Ever since the IT boom in the ’90s, India’s tech landscape has transformed tremendously over the years. While there were hardly any women to be seen in this sector early on, the power of women in the tech industry is quite evident now. In the early days, women employees faced male domination in the technological field just like any other mainstream industry, a perhaps overarching assumption that technology is predominantly for males. This resulted in a mental barrier for consumers, colleagues, employers, and clients alike. The pre-conceived notion of women being incapable of doing technological developments restricted their performance; not because of their lack of skills or ability, but because of the barriers created by their colleagues in the industry. Women felt outnumbered in the industry and believed men have more opportunities for career growth across all levels. Also, the role of a woman as the primary caregiver at home and patriarchal attitudes are other reasons for the lower representation of this gender in the business community. | |
| Former Bay Area exec to pay $1.8 million to settle sex harassment suit | San Francisco Chronicle |
| A former Bay Area venture capitalist and his companies will pay $1.8 million to settle a lawsuit by the state accusing him of sexually harassing an employee and repeatedly touching her without her consent. The Department of Fair Employment and Housing announced the settlement Friday with Lee William “Bill” McNutt III, the Silicon Valley Growth Syndicate, which he co-founded, and International Direct Mail Consultants, which he owns. | |
| New PSU study spotlights the dark side of venture capitalist funding | Portland State University |
| Susan Fowler turned Silicon Valley upside down in 2017 when she posted an essay on her website about the sexual harassment she experienced while working for Uber. | |
| To Fuel Inclusive Entrepreneurship, Give Communities a Voice | Entrepreneur |
| The pathway for entrepreneurs is frequently filled with roadblocks, especially for women and people of color. But employing community-driven solutions to shape public policy can help overcome barriers to many of these entrepreneurs’ successes. To find solutions that work, it’s incredibly important that ideas for development are shaped within communities, instead of from outsiders purporting to understand a community’s perspective and needs. | |
| Marconi Prize honors Andrea Goldsmith as pioneer in wireless communications | Princeton University |
| Andrea Goldsmith, a global leader in the development of wireless systems, has been awarded the Marconi Prize, the highest honor in telecommunications research. She is the first woman ever to win the prize, now in its 45th year. | |
| Oracle faces claims of unequal pay from 4,000+ women after judge upgrades gender gap lawsuit to class action | The Register |
| IT giant accused of paying women less than men doing exact same roles | |
| Women wanted: Why now could be a good time for women to pursue a career in AI | CNBC |
| The coronavirus pandemic has upended countless jobs and even entire industries, leaving many wondering which will emerge out of the other side. One industry likely to endure — or even thrive — under the virus, however, is artificial intelligence (AI), which could offer a glimpse into one of the rising careers of the future. “This outbreak is creating overwhelming uncertainty and also greater demand for AI,” IBM’s vice president of data and AI, Ritika Gunnar told CNBC Make It. | |
| Northeastern’s Center for Inclusive Computing awards grants to six universities to help them increase the number of women in computing | Northeastern University |
| Northeastern University’s Center for Inclusive Computing has awarded the first round of grant funding to six higher education institutions, in order to help recruit and retain more women in their computer science programs and boost the representation of women in the field as a whole. | |
| Google’s diversity numbers show incremental progress | CNet |
| The search giant’s diversity chief is also asked about workplace matters, including the corporate structure of her role and Google’s contractor workforce. | |
| How to choose the right mentor for your startup | The Next Web |
| CBI Insights’ grim sounding 2020 report entitled 339 Startup Failure Post-Mortems found that 70% of upstart tech companies fail. When it comes to consumer hardware startups, 97% eventually die or “become zombies.” And what were the top three reasons for startup failure? | |
| Rising number of ‘manels’, or all-male panels at webinars marks the urgent need for better gender representation | FirstPost |
| On 21 April, the International Paediatric Association organised a webinar on the needs of women and newborn, partnering with the World Health Organisation and United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF). It’s an important issue in these critical times, but something was odd about the poster the organisation shared on their social-media channels — not one of the experts invited to speak on a subject affecting the lives of women and children was a woman. | |
| This is why a gender-sensitive approach will be essential to the future of work after COVID-19 | Fast Company |
| What are the economic consequences of not taking a gender-sensitive approach to this crisis? What would such an approach even entail? How can we integrate advanced technologies and the future of work into our response efforts? | |
| Women in Tech: Linda Schneider, Regional Manager at Computacenter | JaxEnter |
| Women are underrepresented in the tech sector — myth or reality? Three years ago, we launched a diversity series aimed at bringing the most inspirational and powerful women in the tech scene to your attention. Today, we’d like you to meet Linda Schneider, Regional Manager at Computacenter. | |
| There’s an 87% chance your next financial planner will be male | Thinknum Media |
| Northwestern Mutual Investment Services is taking a bespoke approach when it comes to matching prospective customers with financial advisors. It invites users on its website find a financial advisor based on criteria including financial goals, age, location, and income. All reasonable things to consider, to be sure, when one is looking for a financial advisor. This means that Northwestern Mutual has its entire directory of advisors. This also means that it has all of their locations and specialties. And, as we discovered, it means that, contained within the site code, is additional information about the advisors, including their gender (as determined by NoMu, not us). So we ran the numbers on the 7,500 advisors listed online, and as it turns out, the mutual company employs 87% male financial advisors, and, in some states, 100% of its advisors are male. | |
| Diversity in AI improves, but has further to go, according to IBM survey | ZDNet |
| Ninety-one percent of artificial intelligence professionals say increased diversity is having a positive impact on AI technology, but opinions vary based on country as well as gender, according to an IBM study. | |
| Women see biggest job losses during COVID-19, including in Utah | Salt Lake Tribune |
| Women in the U.S. are seeing disproportionate effects of the economic downturn during the coronavirus pandemic compared to men, reports show, and Utah is no exception. | |
| Here’s why work from home concept can be a gamechanger for women employees in IT sector | MoneyControl |
| Aparna K*, a techie with a top IT firm in Chennai, is now a homemaker. After giving birth to a son two years ago, Aparna could not extend her maternity leave nor was she able to get work from home facility approved. | |
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