16 Coding Bootcamps And Scholarships For Women
By Kira M. Newman – In a recent study, RJMetrics found that the tech community was about 29% female, with some cities scoring as low as 17% or 20%. Sam Altman just released some Y Combinator statistics...
View ArticleDigital Dorothy… Just Tap Your Heels Together Three Times And She’ll Make...
Have you ever been stuck in an awkward situation, praying your phone would ring so you could politely extract yourself? Of course you have. That’s why a team of creative inventors at iStrategyLabs...
View ArticleExclusive Interview With Alanah Pearce, Gaming Journalist Turned Internet...
Over the weekend we posted a story on Facebook about Alanah Pearce, a 21-year-old video game journalist in Brisbane, Australia, who received vile rape threats from online trolls, and brilliantly...
View ArticleWant To Map The Exact Spots Where Women Made History… There’s An App For That
Spark, an awesome, girl-fueled feminist movement, is bringing women’s history into the digital age with Women On The Map, a newly launched, super cool, specialty app that will alert Android and iOS...
View ArticleGiving Proper Credit To The Woman Behind The Stunning iPhone Image You’ve...
This image was flying all over the internet yesterday, and was met with countless shares, cheers, “oohs” and “aahs”. But in true social media form, the person most deserving of an invite to the viral...
View ArticleThe BUY UP Index App Identifies Companies That Are Committed to Gender Equality
Often we know which companies are not supportive of women’s issues (Hobby Lobby), but how do we find out about the ones who are? Well, there’s now an app for that, and it’s called the BUY UP Index....
View ArticleLearn An Hour Of Code From The Women of Star Wars
Want to learn to code from Princess Leia, C-3PO and R2-D2 as well as Rey and BB-8 ? Code.org has you covered! The nonprofit, dedicated to expanding access to computer science and increasing...
View ArticleMonica Lewinsky Launches #BeStrong Emojis For World Safer Internet Day
One of the largest global surveys of its kind, spanning 11 countries and almost 5,000 teens, reveals that one in five teens are cyberbullied, a fifth of whom felt suicidal. On this World Safer...
View ArticleThe Blame Game: Villages In India Banning Mobile Phones For Unmarried Women...
Less than 8 months after the launch of Digital India, a massive “mobile connectivity” project spearheaded by India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi that aims to “empower the people of the country...
View Article“Change Me… I’m Full!” Newfangled Tampon Alerts You Before Your Flow Runneth...
Gadgets, gizmos, and apps are making it so we really don’t have to think about much any more. We’ve now got endless options of device-based notifications that will alert us to do or remember just about...
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