Author Archives: WIL Staff

KPMG just released their Women’s Leadership Study which found that while the majority of women want to hold leadership positions many find it difficult to envision themselves as leaders. According to their survey of more than 3,000 professional and ...

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For more than 15 years, one role at Amazon has stood out as perhaps the most coveted: Jeff Bezos’s “shadow,” who acts as an adviser to the CEO, sitting by his side in daily meetings and serving as a sounding board on big decisions. But, as the years...

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Recognizing women’s contributions to open source We’re looking for women who make important contributions to an open source project or the open source community, including: Code and programming. Quality assurance and bug triage. Involvement in ope...

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Prominent civil rights leader Jesse Jackson reminded Google Inc. at its annual stockholders’ meeting that it needs to keep working hard to make its company more diverse. Google Executive Chairman Eric Schmidt asked Jackson, who has been vocal about ...

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  A new research study says sexism in STEM is alive and well — and that it disproportionately affects women of color. The “The 5 Biases Pushing Women Out Of STEM” study — published in the Harvard Business Review — survey...

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Intel Capital today unveiled a push to back startups run by women or minorities with a new $125 million fund. The Intel Capital Diversity Fund will be managed by Intel Capital Managing DirectorLisa Lambert, who is African-American. Company that qualify fo...

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Chieh Huang, CEO of Boxed — a bulk shopping app and mobile commerce startup — will be using his own personal share to pay for his employees’ kids’ college education. Huang told Bloomberg that this perk is really for the “betterment of the emp...

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  No tech company wanted to hire Danie Banks two years ago. She had an Ivy League pedigree — Cornell 2004! — but her degree was in general studies. After graduating, the 33-year-old Bronx native worked a series of office manager jobs, fil...

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For Hank Williams, an entrepreneur based in New York, building a more diverse Silicon Valley isn’t just an economic or moral issue. There are more pressing reasons, ones that no one in the industry or anywhere else likes to talk about. “The problem is...

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Former Google engineer Erica Baker says that when she tried to expose the pay inequalities at the advertising giant, she got in trouble with management in aseries of Twitter posts. Out of boredom, Baker and some coworkers made a spreadsheet that would li...

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