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Why women need sponsors more than mentors

I was on a panel at GHC 2012 last week "Sponsors or Mentors - which will get you there?" Standing room only in a large room, it was clearly a topic of great interest to the female tech students and geeks at the conference. And the questions were priceless... The panel, lead by Anne Losby of Thomson Reuters, was prompted by a report Catalyst put out last year on Sponsoring Women to Success. In it the research clearly shows sponsorship is a powerful differentiator at the top and key to [...]

Women Computer Scientists – Yes They Exist!

Published earlier today in the Huffington Post Women are doing some amazing work in Computer Science and Engineering, how come we don't know about them? We all know about the stereotypical hot start-up out of Silicon Valley led by some twenty-something white guy but we don't hear much about women entrepreneurs, computer scientists, researchers and business leaders in tech. How come? Is it like the research study recently reported in the New York Times where a scientifically oriented resume with a women's name at the top was consistently rated lower [...]