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Fast Company Honors Technically Women

Fast Company Honors Technically Women

Posted 27 April 2010 | By Moya Watson | Categories: Technically Women | 3 Comments

As easy as it is to find fault with typical “best-of” lists, picking apart who’s present and who’s absent, I find little to complain about today with Fast Company’s 2010 piece on The Most Influential Women in Technology.
Fast Company has assembled a great list of diverse women with varying backgrounds and partitioned the list into [...]

Let’s Really Talk About Gender Diversity

Let’s Really Talk About Gender Diversity

Posted 07 April 2010 | By Moya Watson | Categories: Women and conferences | 7 Comments

Rethinking the female conference speaker dimension
The other day, while chatting in passing with a high-level executive at my huge enterprise software company about the conference speaker gender (non-)diversity issue, I suggested he could instantly transform speaker diversity by changing his gender.
The man, by the way, did an admirable job fielding my rather tasteless request (I [...]