Move over, Feminist Ryan Gosling — there’s a new Tumblr battling sexism. On Wednesday, 16 undergraduate students at Duke University launched Who Needs Feminism? , a campaign that encourages feminist and gender egalitarian discussion over social media. Read more »
Where Are the Women on Facebook’s Board of Directors? [VIDEO]
Facebook , despite having more female users, has zero women on its board of directors. A recent Bloomberg report compared the Facebook board’s gender imbalance with that of LinkedIn and Google, both of which have at least one female board member. Facebook’s CFO Sheryl Sandberg, however, is of course a woman Read more »
Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg on Why We Need More Women Engineers [LIVE]
Sheryl Sandberg, Facebook ‘s second-in-command, isn’t at a loss for words when it comes to the issue of getting more women in leadership roles in science, technology and business. Today she’s speaking at the Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing, one of the largest conferences focused on women in STEM professions — science, technology, engineering and mathematics Read more »
Google+ Users Are Still Mostly Male
If you were to throw a dart at Google+, it would be more than twice as likely to land on a man’s profile as a woman’s profile. Although the social network, according to recent estimates, has improved its gender ratio since it first launched, men still drastically outnumber women Read more »