Articles about Women in Tech

Tech is major focus as Melinda French Gates gives $150M to increase workplace equality for women

Melinda French Gates is giving $150 million to a variety of groups to help remove barriers for women in the… Read More

Diversity-focused school Ada Developers Academy cuts 45% of staff amid tech industry hiring pullback

Ada Developers Academy, the Seattle-based tuition-free software development boot camp for women and underrepresented sexual, gender and racial minorities, laid… Read More

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Research finds women are 65% more likely than men to lose jobs in ongoing wave of tech layoffs

Tech layoffs are impacting women at a disproportionately higher rate than men, representing a possible setback for the industry’s efforts… Read More

Junior Geek of the Month: A UW student at 16, Merrill Keating leads other girls along STEM path

At the ages of 11 and 12, Merrill Keating wrote and published three books. It turns out her story was… Read More

GeekWire Calendar Picks: The inside story about Facebook; International Women’s Day; and more

— Facebook dominates the social media space and is one of the most recognizable entities in the world today. It… Read More

MacKenzie Bezos, Amazon CEO’s ex-wife, sells $400M in stock after pledge to give away billions

Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos’ ex-wife, MacKenzie Bezos, has divested herself of about $400 million worth of the Amazon stock she… Read More

GeekWire Calendar Picks: Women in Cloud Summit; tech’s influence on democracy; and more

— Women can get left behind or overlooked for their abilities to contribute to evolving technologies such as cloud computing.… Read More

GeekWire Calendar Picks: Space startups, lunar rovers, geeky women, online privacy, and more

— Geeks (and some non-geeks as well) seem to have a never-ending fascination with space. That love of the great… Read More

GeekWire Calendar Picks: The beginning of the universe, autonomous cars, and AI at work

— It’s one of the great questions of humanity that will likely never be answered: how did the universe begin?… Read More

GeekWire Calendar Picks: Tech to Protect Challenge; cybersecurity panel; Beyond Bollywood

— The newest consumer electronic devices feature the latest technologies, but unfortunately the same can’t always be said about the… Read More

GeekWire Calendar Picks: Witchcraft and neuropsychology; Jet City Comic Show; and more

— Halloween is just a couple weeks away and the Pacific Science Center is celebrating the holiday with a spooky… Read More

Female Founders Alliance Demo Night: 8 women-led startups pitch their businesses

Workwear for women. Sustainable spirits. Tools for podcasters, car insurance, major life events. An arousing chatbot. A creative intellectual property… Read More

Microsoft’s venture fund teams up with Melinda Gates for $6M Female Founders Competition

Microsoft’s venture arm M12 is launching another Female Founders Competition, this time with some help from Melinda Gates and Silicon… Read More

GeekWire Calendar Picks: Working in video games; the latest findings on sleep; and more

— Working in video games is something lots of young (and not so young) people aspire to do. But it… Read More

GeekWire Calendar Picks: Women in leadership; science fiction convention; API conference; more

— Seattle online retailer Zulily is teaming up with women’s professional soccer team Seattle Reign FC for an event designed… Read More

A study about studies suggests men will still prevail in computer science in 2100

Today it’s mostly a man’s world in computer science — and a tally of the authors behind nearly 3 million… Read More

How this woman’s journey to becoming a startup CEO illustrates tech industry’s gender issues

Computer Science 101 ruined Kristen Miller’s perfect GPA. She was close to finishing her degree at the University of Illinois… Read More

GeekWire Calendar Picks: Picturing black holes; Cloud City Tech Meetup; and classic arcade games

–One of the biggest scientific feats was accomplished this year when a team of astronomers captured an image of a… Read More

Future for Us conference stokes ambition and fellowship for women of color professionals

The packed house at the Future for Us Assembly on Saturday was rapidly scribbling down notes. On stage, Jessie Woolley-Wilson,… Read More

GeekWire Calendar Picks: Open source project led by Sir Tim Berners-Lee; mastering startup pitches; and more

— When he invented the World Wide Web, Sir Tim Berners-Lee had a specific vision for how it would evolve,… Read More

GeekWire Calendar Picks: Celebrating the first man in space and exploring underwater artifacts

More than 60 years ago, the world got serious about exploring space. The global fascination with the great beyond led… Read More

GeekWire Calendar Picks: Jobs in space; a critical look at Facebook; women executives and pay equity

Space has always fascinated us geeks. Thanks to Star Wars, Star Trek and countless other science fiction media, gazing at… Read More

GeekWire Calendar Picks: Online privacy, networking skills, and game development

Do you like to find a product on Facebook that you likely wouldn’t have known about otherwise? (That cool coding… Read More

Melinda Gates launches new online platform to highlight inspiring stories, innovative thinkers

Melinda Gates this week launched Evoke, a new website that bills itself as a “community of optimistis” and aims to… Read More

Code.org’s Hadi Partovi and Microsoft’s Bonnie Ross put focus on tech’s gender gap on 60 Minutes

The push to get more girls and women interested in computer science has been the talk of tech for years.… Read More

GeekWire Calendar Picks: The GeekWire Bash is a week away; International Women’s Day; and the future of Star Trek

Did you spend years in your parents’ basement playing ping pong? Or foosball? Or Catan? If so, join the GeekWire… Read More

The Riveter begins national expansion with new female-focused co-working space in Austin

Update, Jan. 29: The Riveter announced plans for new locations in Dallas, Denver, Portland, Ore., Minneapolis – St. Paul, and… Read More

Female Founders Alliance raises cash from angel investors, inks deal with WeWork

It’s already been a busy year for the Female Founders Alliance. The Seattle-based organization continues to march toward its mission of… Read More

Another Pioneer Square Labs spinout: Remarkably targets commercial real estate with marketing tech

When Erina Malarkey looks at how commercial real estate stakeholders are spending money on marketing efforts, she’s in disbelief. “You… Read More

Madrona promotes Hope Cochran, who becomes first female managing director at Seattle VC firm

For the first time in its 23-year history, Madrona Venture Group has a female managing director. The Seattle-based venture capital… Read More