This post appears courtesy of the Ferenstein Wire, a syndicated news service. Publishing partners may edit posts. For inquiries, please email author and publisher Gregory Ferenstein. The male-dominated video-game world is inching closer towards a more balanced gender representation. Even though women gamers have slightly outnumbered men since 2014, according to the Internet Advertising Bureau, […]
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What’s Different For Women In Tech Now: They’re Taking Action
A panel features women working on solutions.

Actually, Silicon Valley Isn’t Run By Straight White American-Born Men
Women, gays, and immigrants form a new majority at the top.

After Gender Ratio Stalls, Pinterest Cofounder Promises To Do Better
Pinterest’s percentage of women in tech roles hasn’t changed in a year.

Facebook’s Gender Equality Update: Why Icons Have Meaning
It’s tricky, but worth it, to think about the pixels.

Meritocracy, My Back End
An early Oracle employee says Silicon Valley still doesn’t play fair with women or minorities.

How This Bathroom Sign Supports Women In Tech
Inside the viral campaign that aims to bust down doors for women in STEAM fields.

What It Took These Four Women To Get Into Robotics
And what you can learn from them.

Intel Pledges $300M To Take On GamerGate And Diversity In Tech
It pledges “full representation” across its entire workforce by 2020.

ReadWrite’s Best Stories Of 2014
From building silly Twitter bots to skewering the NSA.

Let’s All Save These Historic Works Of Feminist Game Making From Obscurity
Not for not the sake of video game history, but it’s future

Codefunding: A Young Woman Looks To Break Into Programming
Liz Acosta seeks funds for her future.

Sweden’s Sexism Test For Games Is A Great Idea
Even if it’s difficult to measure.

Reddit Interim CEO Ellen Pao: A Rare Instance Of A Woman Running A Tech Company
Make room, Marissa and Meg.

Sexting With Robots With Kara Stone
What it’s like to be a woman who makes video games.

Pinterest’s Tracy Chou: How I Got My Start In Tech—Despite Myself
Now she’s empowering others to do the same.

Twitter Might Finally Be Getting Serious About Online Harassment
Cross your fingers.

Why Women Stopped Coding in the 1980s
Stereotypes triggered an engineering gender imbalance.

Hey Microsoft, Tweeting Jokes About Raises Is A Bad Idea
Timing is everything.