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…
I did a full wrap up post earlier this week, but realized when writing it that if I tried to include all the things I learned that blog post would’ve been a very long read. As it is, this post ended up super long too! This is still just a fraction of the copious notes…
Sexism in tech culture may have felt a bit of pressure in Austin, Texas, in mid-March, when SXSW not only put the originally cancelled panels on online harassment back on their schedule, but added another 13 panels. Unfortunately, in adding the discussions back into the conference, they also literally marginalized the entire day of presentations, holding the “Online…
It’s always good to go into an event like SXSW with a plan, otherwise you might get swallowed up in sheer potential of all the possibilities. As this year I wasn’t doing a full presentation, I decided to focus on networking. There are tens of thousands of people that attend SXSWinteractive each year, so who…
I’ve launched a MeetUp titled Sunnyvale Women: Ditch the B*tch Stigma and membership is growing really quickly, with over 53 members & more joining each week! Currently we’re scheduled to meet every 4th Thursday from 6:30-7:30pm, but I’m very open to adding additional days/times. If you’re interested in attending please take this super short survey!…
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…
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…
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…