Impact, Our Point of View

Celebrating International Women’s Day

International Women’s Day - on March 8 every year - honors the incredible social, economic, cultural, and political accomplishments by women around the world. Starting in 1909, the UN declared the first Women’s Day to recognize the 1908 garment workers’ strike in New York, where for the first time, women laborers protested against inhumane working conditions. The UN...

Gabriela Seplovich and Shahnaz Radjy | Mar 7, 2016
gender, gender equity, girls, International Women's Day, investing in women, Sustainable Development Goals, The Girl Effect, women, Women Deliver

Our Point of View

The Gender Divide in Tech: A Leaky Pipeline

Women make up 56% of the US labor force and 51% of the US population. Meanwhile, only 20% of executives in the technology industry are women. The fact that women are often left out of high-level decision-making positions is not new. However, here are three pressing reasons why the technology industry should address this gender...

Gabriela Seplovich and Sarah Kunkle | Feb 23, 2016
Amazon, Apple, Bureau of Labor Statistics, Deloitte, Facebook, gender, Girls Who Code, Google, innovative technology, Intel, National Center for Women and Information Technology, technology, technology industry, women