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How Google Leadership Failed Women in Tech

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Google loves a good pedigree.

James Damore, the developer at the center of the huge anti-diversity manifesto controversy that got him fired from Google, is an educated person with a solid academic pedigree. According to his LinkedIn profile, he holds a BS in Molecular Biology, Physics and Chemistry from the University of Illinois and a Master in System Biology from Harvard.

After a couple of short internship with Princeton and Harvard, he spent over one year as Research Scientist at MIT. … [Read more...] about How Google Leadership Failed Women in Tech

Anti-Diversity, Google, and Lack of Good Judgment

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[This post was featured on the Huffington Post]

Many people who are successful show lack of good sense or judgment. There are many examples. A recent one is Travis Kalanick, the ex-CEO of Uber. His list of actions showing a lack of good judgment is impressive. You can find a version of the list here. It was painful to watch him wreck his career. Now he is no longer the CEO. That is a demonstration that behaving the way he did was not smart for himself or the business.

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We Need Women in Tech

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The realization that the world needs more women in tech

A few years ago, I observed my daughter become interested in technology and coding. I bought her a , and she started learning Python. She also signed up for some Java development classes at DigiPen. She naturally gravitated toward programming because she wanted to work in a creative and technical field that could stimulate her creative and analytical mind. Accidentally, that is exactly what originally brought me to the world of computer … [Read more...] about We Need Women in Tech