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The Women in Technology International (WITI) is a global organization dedicated to the advancement of women in business and technology. [231] The Arab Women in Computing has many chapters across the world and focuses on encouraging women to work with technology and provides networking opportunities between industry experts and academicians and ...
LinuxChix, an international organization for women who use Linux and women and men who want to support women in computing, was founded by Deb Richardson. [ 118 ] Marissa Mayer , was the first female engineer hired at Google, and was later named vice president of Search Product and User Experience.
Lucy Sanders (born 1954), CEO and co-founder of National Center for Women & Information Technology (NCWIT); Executive-in-Residence for ATLAS Institute at University of Colorado at Boulder [78] [79] Padmasree Warrior, chief technology and strategy officer of Cisco Systems; former CTO of Motorola, Inc. [80] [81] [82] [83]
Women's participation in science, technology, and engineering has been limited [7] [8] [9] and also under-reported throughout most of history. [10] [11] This has been the case, with exceptions, until large-scale changes began around the 1970s.
Women inventors have been historically rare in some geographic regions. For example, in the UK, only 33 of 4090 patents (less than 1%) issued between 1617 and 1816 named a female inventor. [ 1 ] In the US, in 1954, only 1.5% of patents named a woman, compared with 10.9% in 2002. [ 1 ]
It is known for producing the Women in Technology International Hall of Fame, which inducts women who have made a significant contribution to technology. Started from an email group in 1989, by 2012 the group had grown to 2 million people and became the leading organization for women in technology. [6]
Rosa Parks. Susan B. Anthony. Helen Keller. These are a few of the women whose names spark instant recognition of their contributions to American history. But what about the many, many more women who never made it into most . high school history books?
In 2021 the Women's Engineering Society selected the theme of Engineering Heroes to celebrate the women engineers around the world who played a major role in protecting and defending society from the Covid-19 pandemic. Believing the pandemic to be over by the time of the awards, WES also chose to celebrate women engineers who deliver and ...