Tag: ChangeTheRatio
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Why Marissa Mayer Should Embrace Feminism — Your Ideas Wanted
Sheez. Just when we’re celebrating that another woman has become CEO of a major corporation– and a tech one at that — we discover that she doesn’t think of herself as a feminist. That means, something’s wrong. Let’s see what we can do to help Marissa Mayer understand what feminism is, why she might want…
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What You Can Do about the Gender Gap on Wikipedia: The WWHACKathon
It’s only 9:15 on a Monday morning and already I’ve received six emails suggesting that I blog about today’s New York Times article about the Gender Gap at Wikipedia. What really is there to say, that hasn’t been said before? We know about how men’s self-confidence, geek machismo, and other dynamics of male-ism influence the…
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Advocating for Inclusion: A roundup of ideas from post-TEDx636 roundtable
“Building on TED and the TEDWomen Conference: How Can We Make Conferences More Inclusive?” We made a big start towards answering this question at our roundtable conversation after the TEDx636 NYC/ TEDWomen simulcast event. Our panel, organized by Natalia Oberti Noguera and sponsored by NYWSE, included Brittany McCandless (moderator), Adaora Udoji, Liza Sabater, Ritu Yadav,…
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Authentic From the Start-Up: 4 Tips from Cindy Gallop and IfWeRanTheWorld
If you were building an organization from the ground up, how would you “build authenticity in” from the very start? I had the chance to ask this question of Cindy Gallop, an entrepreneur and marketing/advertising/branding guru, who is the CEO of a start-up called IfWeRanTheWorld. IfWeRanTheWorld and Cindy have both been recommended to me by…