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In the News
- Inside Higher Ed: Micro-Internships Give Women a Foot in the Tech Industry Door
- Forbes: Are We Burying The Lead On The Upheaval In Tech?
- New York Times: An Engine of Upward Mobility Struggles to Capture Opportunities in Tech
- Crain’s New York Business: Nearly 1,000 Women Got A Spot At A Tech Company After This Experience
- Workshift: Micro ‘Sprinternships’ Show Results For Female Students In Tech
- Forbes: Five Ways Tech Leaders Can Support Women On Their Teams Finding Their Own Voice
- Forbes: The Scarcity Of AI Talent: A Problem Of Our Own Making Is A Problem We Can Solve
- Forbes: 5 Simple Things Tech Leaders Should Do In 2022 To Advance Gender Equality
- Miami Herald: Melinda Gates spending millions to give women greater opportunities in Miami’s tech sector
- Forbes: Innovating Across Sectors to Fuel Gender Equality in Tech: A Q&A With Renee Wittemyer
- Forbes: Unlocking the Transformational Value of AI
- Forbes: Judith Spitz, Founder and Executive Director of Break Through Tech, is named a Forbes: woman over 50 who is leading the way in impact and innovation.
- Forbes: Why Tech Executives Must Embrace Diversity As Their First Line Of Defense Against The Business Impacts Of Algorithmic Bias
- Forbes: Tech Summer Internships Version 2.0: Why CIOs And CTOs Should Repurpose Their Summer Internship Programs As Diversity Initiatives
- The Wall Street Journal: How to Get More Women Into Technology(Subscription Required)
- Medium: Reboot Representation Grantee Spotlight: Amy Furman
- Fast Company: COVID-19 does discriminate. It’s making it harder for women of color to get into tech
- Forbes: Melinda Gates Names Chicago First Gender-Inclusive Tech Hub
- Fast Company: Melinda Gates’s Pivotal Ventures has a plan to help women gain more power in tech
- Crain’s New York Business: Cornell Tech’s Women’s Initiative to Expand Nationally (Subscription Required)
- Crain’s New York Business: Break This Catch 22 and Close the Tech Gender Gap (Subscription Required)
- Metro New York: City’s ‘Winternship’ program intends to put more women in tech
Press Releases
- Cornell Tech: Gender Equality in Tech (GET) Cities Expands to DC to Diversify the Tech Ecosystem
- Cornell Tech: WiTNY Initiative Announces National Expansion to Recruit More Women in Tech – Formally Becomes Break Through Tech
- CUNY: CUNY, Cornell Tech, And Founding Partner Verizon Announce Women In Technology And Entrepreneurship In NY Initiative
Insights
- If they don’t hear from you, they probably won’t promote you
- Five Ways Women Break Down Barriers in Tech
- Kim Churches on why young women graduating from college in the pandemic face a “triple threat,”
- Leslie Smith on why cities are the perfect ecosystems for accelerating gender equality in tech
- CEO Dwana Franklin-Davis on helping women of color break through in tech