Oct 17, 2013
While women are still vastly outnumbered in the fields of science and information technology (IT), some exceptional women have made the world take notice. Gradually these trailblazers are being joined by other ambitious and determined women and at last there are...
Oct 1, 2013
Intel has announced She Will Connect, a new programme that commits to expanding digital literacy skills to young women in developing countries. Intel will begin the initiative in Africa, where the gender gap is the greatest, by aiming to reach 5-million women and...
Sep 17, 2013
Research demonstrates that when women are economically empowered, communities and nations benefit – but there are questions around how to best achieve women empowerment. The United Nations Foundation and the ExxonMobil Foundation announced today a new evidence-based...
Sep 9, 2013
Women earn relatively more money when they choose careers not dominated by men, new research suggests. A study of 20 industrialised nations found that in countries where men and women worked in different occupations, there was not such pay inequality between them. The...
Sep 3, 2013
The ranks of software programmers and IT project managers, business analysts, and consultants include very few women. But is this because of either active or subconscious discrimination against women? And what is the role of African men in preventing their daughters...
