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I’ve been rocking the conference circuit these days, and last Wednesday I attended one I haven’t been to before. The Women In Tech Festival held in Silicon Valley is focused on, you guessed it, Women in Tech. I had to arrive a bit late so unfortunately I missed the first two panels (which looked really…

It’s 2016, and sexism should be a thing of the past. Even if you know, however, that the gender balance isn’t completely equal, you may not be aware just how prevalent small biases continue to be, especially in the workplace. These little biases may appear in the form of gendered insults in the workplace, often against…

Sexism has long been a rival of working women, whether they waitress at the local diner (“Hey, sweetie, where’s my coffee?”) or work as top executives in large corporations (“Don’t mind her.  She’s just a demanding bitch.”), but Democratic frontrunner Hillary Clinton has elicited an awareness of sexism on a whole new level from the American people, one…

This was the second year I attended both the Hooked Workshop and Habit Summit. Since I learned so much last year I decided to go back and I’m glad I did, Nir Eyal does a really great job of keeping things fresh. The book these events are based on “Hooked: How to Build Habit-Forming Products”…

It’s no secret that there’s a gap in pay from male to female within the same job roles, and that the workplace balance needs to become more even. But how do gender & sexuality in the workplace affect women, men, and transgender employees on a day-to-day basis? Here are the findings you may not have known about hidden bias…

Our first meeting was a success! Eight women, including myself, met up and offered each other support, affirmation and practical strategies to fight sexism. The hour seriously flew by! It never ceases to amaze me the kind of energy that can be created when a group of powerful women connect and how quickly those connections…

Studies done in recent years have backed up what many of us have known all along…. that music is a powerful force for lifting your mood. Music often has a profound connection with our memories, hearing a song can transport us immediately back to a particular time in our life, acting as an audible time…

The worlds of technology and biotechnology are both fueled by ambitious startup companies, but other than that, they don’t share that much in common – except when it comes to their treatment of women. Both are old boys clubs that exhibit blatant sexism in their cultures. Each winter, the biotech world descends on San Francisco for the…

One day, a few years ago, I was talking with my mom about what makes a good leader and she said that by her standards the most important trait is to be humble. She said… “Good leaders don’t care who gets the credit, they just care about getting things done.” And there are many times…

Sexism in tech culture is alive and well and infesting GitHub, according to a recent Washington Post article, “The stunning difference in how people treat female coders — once they find out they’re female.” The article concerned the findings by a group of researchers from both coasts, who have published a study on male and female…