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Fashion model Karlie Kloss has launched two scholarship opportunities through her organization Kode with Klossy for young girls and women interested in computer programming. The idea is to change the perspective towards women in IT and to get students to learn programming languages behind apps like Twitter and The New York Times. The two scholarship opportunities, Camp Scholarship and …

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ACM, the Association for Computing Machinery, has announced the election of new officers who will lead the organization for a two-year term beginning July 1. With this election, ACM will have its first all-female Executive Committee. “This is an opportunity to highlight the contributions that women have made to computing and to inspire young women to view …

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The all-male CEBIT panel that panelist Alan Jones called out on Twitter. More than 30 men — so far — have signed an Australian pledge to say “No, thanks, mate” to invitations to appear on all-male panels. “Every study into diversity and collaboration I’ve read supports the fact that it raises the collective IQ,” said …

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Women account for only seven percent of all the active and participating investing partners in the top hundred venture firms globally, according to a report released this week. And only 38 percent of the top hundred venture firms have any female investment partners at all —  28 percent of the firms have only one and 7 percent …

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