Innovating Women
The Changing Face of Technology
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Publisher Description
From one of Time Magazine's 40 Most Influential Minds in Technology: women across the globe share stories of closing the tech industry's gender gap.
Women in technology are on the rise in both power and numbers, but we need to accelerate that momentum if we want to "lean in" and close the gender gap. The future of technology depends on women and men working together at their full potential. For that to happen, it is vital that women feel welcomed, rewarded, and respected in tech sectors.
Hailed by Foreign Policy Magazine as a "Top 100 Global Thinker," professor, researcher, and entrepreneur Vivek Wadhwa, alongside award-winning journalist Farai Chideya, collect anecdotes and essays from female tech leaders around the world, sharing how their experiences in innovative industries frame the future of entrepreneurship.
With interviews and essays from hundreds of women in STEM fields, including Anousheh Ansari, the first female private sector space explorer; former Google[X] VP and current CTO of the USA, Megan Smith; Ory Okolloh of the Omidyar Network; CEO of Nanobiosym Dr. Anita Goel, MD, PhD,; and venture capitalist Heidi Roizen, Innovating Women offers perspectives on the challenges that women face, the strategies that they employ in the workplace, and how organizations can support the career advancement of women.
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According to the essays and first-person narratives in this capable overview of women in the technology world, tech companies are not just failing to hire women into the C-suite their culture prevents female employees at all levels from reaching their full potential. But female tech pioneers succeed against the odds. For example, Kim Polese, chairwoman of ClearStreet and the founding product manager for Java during its launch in 1995, contributes a personal essay on persistence. A chapter on education highlights the stigma facing women in STEM fields through the experiences of several women who persevered and now hold jobs in tech-related fields. The book hits especially hard on two modes of exclusion: lack of funding for female entrepreneurs, and lack of support for women's roles in the family and household. The book is a solid contribution to the growing popular literature on the subject. Although it covers a lot of the same ground as Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg's Lean In, it brings together more voices from the community of women working in tech. Wadhwa, a Stanford researcher who has been blogging on the topic for TechCrunch, argues that his natural next step was a book. He crowdsourced many of the contributions because "what right did I a male have to tell women how to solve their problems?"
