Get The Tech Job Without The "Chest-Thumping"

The founders of coding school Hackbright Academy explain why they went with an all-female format and how it’s working out for graduates. By Jessica Stillman (Contributing Writer, Women 2.0) Startup fever may be raging like never before, but the number of women...
Get The Tech Job Without The “Chest-Thumping”

Get The Tech Job Without The “Chest-Thumping”

The founders of coding school Hackbright Academy explain why they went with an all-female format and how it’s working out for graduates. By Jessica Stillman (Contributing Writer, Women 2.0) Startup fever may be raging like never before, but the number of women...
Women On The Verge: Day 1 At Hackbright Academy

Women On The Verge: Day 1 At Hackbright Academy

16 of us filed into an office in San Francisco’s Mission District today – among our ranks were physicists, teachers, mech and electrical engineers, sys admins, women fresh out of college, mothers, MIG welders, professors, biologists. By Margaret Morris...
Computer Programmers Learn Tough Lesson In Sharing

Computer Programmers Learn Tough Lesson In Sharing

Pairing is finding fans at technology companies… By Joseph Walker (Writer, Wall Street Journal) Virginia Woolf argued that a woman writer needs a room of her own. In Silicon Valley, some companies are questioning whether software programmers even need their own...