Women & Minorities, your absence hasn’t gone unnoticed!
Women and minorities have long been underrepresented in the technology industry. There has been a long prolonged battle to increase the number of women with degrees in STEMS disciplines, but talk to just about any women that works in the field and they will tell …
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Domestic Violence and Police
Given the recent number of cases of officers using excessive force that have been grabbing the headlines it wasn’t surprising to read a recent article on the website Identities.misc regarding the statistics on domestic abuse among families of police The article states: “As the …
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Mallika Sherawat on the State of Women’s Rights in India
I have been in India for a few weeks now enjoying a family vacation. I have to say, watching the news here I couldn’t agree more with the statements that Mallika Sherawat made in this video. In fact, husband’s, father’s, and son’s in India should …
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Toys for Girls and Toys for Boys
With Christmas just around the corner and parents shopping frantically for presents I found the recent controversy over marketing toys to be very interesting. I have personally found that in this era where there has been such an emphasis on getting girls interested in STEMS …
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Women’s Suffrage Anniversary
99 years ago from today 25,000 women marched up New York City’s 5th Avenue to fight for their fundamental right to vote. The 19th amendment was passed 5 years later in 1920. Amazing how much many women don’t vote given how important it is to …
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Nobel Prize Winner Malala Yousafzai- Fighting for Equality for Women
The fact that Malala Yousafzai’s nobel prize is being categorized as “polarizing” is sad indeed. It shows a strange phenomena where her own country hesitates to claim her proudly. If you don’t know who she is Malala is a young woman who, supported by her …
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October is Women’s Small Business Month
If you didn’t know October is Women’s Small Business Month? Someone should have told Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella, who spent most of last week backpedaling from comments he made during an interview last week where when asked about women not getting promotions. Specifically he said, …
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