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“Brogrammers”: Just One Of The Girls

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Accessibility to tech rained on by "brogramming". By Adda Birnir (Co-Founder, Balance Media & Skillcrush)

I have been following the “brogrammer” meme for months now with a mix of annoyance and exasperation. I was bummed that Twilio, a company whose product I greatly admire, helped start this “joke” and then followed the Hacker News job posting hubbub and subsequent chronicling of “brogramming” by a number of tech media outlets.

But as I was reading about Klout’s “Want to bro down and crush code?” job recruitment poster at a recent Stanford career fair, I for the first time felt some sympathy for the guys

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Stop Asking Permission: Be Seen, Be Heard

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How can anyone give you what you want if you don’t actually ask? By Christina Wallace (Co-Founder & CEO, Quincy)

Two weeks ago I spoke as part of a workshop for the Undergraduate Women in Business conference at NYU Stern School of Business.

The workshop was called “Necessary Conversations” and the overall theme was how to grab a seat at the table, speak up, and have the conversations that matter — whether pitching for an investment, negotiating a raise, giving difficult feedback, asking for a mentor relationship, you name it.

Undergraduate women at NYU Stern are facing the same difficulties that women at many top business schools face - they are

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Investing In Women – And Not Just In The Abstract

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Some firms are giving investors the option to invest in companies that promote gender equality. By Alice Korngold (Blogger, Fast Company)

You can probably name the CEOs of many global corporations - but you might not be able to name the people who serve on the boards. Nor might you be able to say how many women serve on the boards.

And yet, corporate boards make decisions that affect shareholder value, company brand and reputation, global economies and industries, employment, the environment, human rights, the fortunes of suppliers and distributors, health care and pensions, and much more. And studies show that companies with more women on boards and in leadership positions outperform - financially and otherwise - companies with fewer women.

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International Women’s Day: Celebrating Women In Tech (Slideshow)

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By Chandra Steele (Writer, PCMag) International Women's Day is not a day to drag out the familiar (and all-too-true) lament about the dearth of women in technology or debate the merits of computer scientist Barbie.

At PCMag, we're celebrating women who have improved the world through technology. Some of the first technological achievements are directly attributable to women. The title of world's first computer programmer goes to Ada Lovelace, daughter of the poet Lord Byron, whose notes on Charles Babbage's analytical engine are recognized as the first algorithm for processing on a machine.

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Female Founders To Watch From Springboard Attending SXSWi

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By Katie Gage (Programming Manager, Springboard Enterprises) Melinda Wittstock (Founder & CEO, NewsiT) is launching her new mobile app at SXSW, demoing on Friday, and pitching at Hatchpitch on Sunday. NewsiT is a crowd-reporting platform and a social network for news.

Here are a list of Springboard companies that will be at SXSW: Bettina Hein (Founder & CEO, Pixability) Serial entrepreneur Bettina founded Pixability. Follow her company at @pixability.

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Roundup: Female Founder Successes To Celebrate This Week

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March 8 may be International Women's Day but we are celebrating women all week, year long! By Angie Chang (Co-Founder & Editor-in-Chief, Women 2.0)

This week, we highly respect Sara Blakely for joining Forbes' World Billionaire's list thanks to her company Spanx. The 41 year old is the youngest person on the list - and worth ten figures without the aid of a husband or an inheritance, and she still owns 100% of the company she founded in 2000.

This Week: Female-Founded Startup Fundraising

Songkick raised $10M Series B from Sequoia Capital, the firm's first UK investment reported TechCrunch. Songkick was founded in 2007 by Michelle You as a Y Combinator company.

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2012 PITCH Startup Competition Finalist Kismet Announces Funding, New Features For SXSW

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PITCH Competition finalist secures seed funding. By Michelle Norgan (Co-Founder & Chief Product Officer, Kismet)

I'm excited to announce that Kismet, featured last month as a finalist of the Women 2.0 PITCH Startup Competition, has raised our seed round with investments from Triple Point Ventures, NEA, and an incredible list of angels including Shiva Rajaraman (Head of Consumer at YouTube), Steph Hannon (an early PM on Gmail), Roham Gharegozlou, and several others.

Kismet helps you meet new people in the real world. We've just unveiled some features that will make meeting new people even easier, especially this coming week at SXSW.

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Women 2.0 Commits To International Growth, Enters Latin America With Ellas 2.0

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Women 2.0 goes global with Ellas 2.0 on International Women's Day. By Angie Chang (Co-Founder & Editor-in-Chief, Women 2.0)

On International Women's Day this March 8, 2012, Women 2.0 is announcing our partnership with Ellas 2.0, a Spain-based non-profit supporting female founders of tech startups, to reach a broader community of women entrepreneurs in Spanish-speaking communities in the United States and Latin America.

We will be expanding Founder Friday to Latin America and providing educational content, previously available only in English, in Spanish.

“Women are an important and powerful contributor to economic growth, innovation and job creation in the global

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Women’s Capital Connection: Changing The Face Of Angel Investing (Women Angel Investors)

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By Rania Anderson (Co-Founder, Women's Capital Connection) At a time when media coverage and conversations about angel investing revolve around how few women-led businesses have access to capital and on expiring tax credits for angel investors, I am reminded of a question posed by Barbara Stanny in her book, Secrets of Six-Figure Women:

“What if we turned our attention from what’s wrong with the system and instead analyzed what’s working for those who are succeeding? We would not be ignoring the problems, we would be merely shifting our perspective.”

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BestBuzz To Celebrate Friday “APPY” Hour At SXSW Interactive

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Female-founded startup hosts "APPY" hour at SXSW Interactive. By Caitlin Miller (Marketing Director, BestBuzz)

BestBuzz will be celebrating their annual SXSW Interactive ‘APPY’ Hour party on Friday, March 9 at 5pm in Austin, TX at the 512 Bar on 6th Street.

Founder and CEO of BestBuzz Carrie Layne says, "We spend months planning our ‘APPY’ Hour party, and we look forward to this event every year. SXSW is all about networking and this event is the perfect kickoff to an exciting Interactive week. We’ve met so many great people in the industry, and we look forward to seeing our old ‘appy’ friends and meeting new ones

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For International Women’s Day, Give To Girls Around The World

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March 8 is International Women's Day! By Zanoon Nissar (Fundraising & Partnerships, Jolkona)

It's crazy what a difference 101 years can make. When International Women's Day started back in 1911, over a million men and women attended IWD rallies to stand up for women's rights to work, vote, be trained, to hold public office and end discrimination.

Now it's 2012, and we're joining each other on bridges in solidarity - proud of the advancements made.

We now have female astronauts and heads of state, school girls are welcomed into university, women can work

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