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Mike Cassidy

August 12th

Women and Computing: The Promise Denied

Mike Cassidy, former Silicon Valley Dispatches columnist at the San Jose Mercury News, and currently the storyteller at BloomReach, a big data marketing application startup, wrote a three-part series on women and computing earlier this year. Part one of the series covered the reasons behind the lack of women in computing (women hold less than a quarter of computing jobs in the US) and the consequences. Part two addressed the question of why it matters that women are not better represented in the tech workforce. Part three looked at what it will take to reverse the decline (women earning computer science bachelor degrees declined from 37 percent in 1984 to 17.6 percent in 2011).

Mike will summarize his findings, share his experience researching the series and moderating a panel discussion (Cracking the Code: New Ways to Get More Women and Girls in Tech), and comment on the significance of recent moves by Google, Facebook and Yahoo to disclose the diversity of their workforces.

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