WITsend
July 2009
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Do you know a teenage technology whizzkid? We need her!
23 Jul 2009 -
Great blogs and resources for women working in technology
21 Jul 2009 -
Why has a successful, national IT club for girls been stopped?
20 Jul 2009
A teenage technology conference needs girls to get involved, and we're on a drive to help find some
We've decided to link to and promote a few women in technology sites, because there's so much great writing around that it's worth doing.
Computer clubs for girls worked hard to get more girls interested in technology, and its move to gender neutrality has raised a few questions
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Why tomorrow's tech high-flyers must think about diversity
16 Jul 2009 -
Bumper crop of women elected Fellows of Royal Academy of Engineering
15 Jul 2009 -
Wendy Tan-White on sceptical men and Twitter success
13 Jul 2009 -
Is E-skills UK's new video proof it's given up on girls?
09 Jul 2009 -
IT girls in Management Today's 35 under 35 list
09 Jul 2009 -
Bletchley Park specialist tour: Women of Bletchley Park
08 Jul 2009 -
After Ada Lovelace Day...
08 Jul 2009
It's up to the techies of the future to improve gender balance in IT, but a new teen conference has so far missed out the girls
"While IBM spent months simulating their instruction sets on large mainframes, Sophie [Wilson] did it all in her head..."
Wendy Tan-White comes from, and understands, the traditional IT industry, but she is able to look forward and adapt in a way that corporate IT often isn't.
E-skills UK, for those who don't know, is the Sector Skills Council for Business and Information Technology. It's licensed by government and tasked with the mission "to ensure the UK has the skills ...
Business magazine Management Today has published a list of "35 under 35" women in business - good for a quick spot of role model hunting... The women featured in MT's selection include web hosting ...
Apparently Kate Winslet's role in the WWII code-cracking film Engima was bumped up compared to her character's presence in the novel, presumably to add increased interest for female film-goers. But ...
@Rebecca_Thomson just alerted me to some blog posts about a session at the OpenTech conference held this Saturday where Suw Charman-Anderson and others reported back on the success of Ada Lovelace ...