Welcome to The Glass Hammer’s “Women in Tech” month! We will be celebrating successful women in technology all month long! With 30 years of experience in financial services now, Menelly got her start early when she was selected to participate in a management intern program at Bankers Trust. Here, Menelly realized that she always tended […]
By Melissa Anderson A new Catalyst study shows that companies in the science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) industries are setting women MBAs up to fail from the start. “The STEM industry has a poor reputation and our research shows that reputation is deserved. There is a significant gender gap across STEM, and not just […]
Guest Contribution by Michelle Brailsford (London, England) On the topic of organizational politics, what I know now after 30 years in the Fortune 500 world and what I knew starting out is vastly different. I have learned many important lessons about ‘managing politics’ and how important it is to ‘play the game’ in order to […]
By Mai Browne In the past few decades, the world has seen household name technology companies such as Microsoft, Apple, Google and Facebook launched by a succession of young engineers. The massive success of these enterprises, and their famous founders, give many people the impression that tech companies are always led by engineers. Not so. […]
Welcome to The Glass Hammer’s “Women in Tech” month! We will be celebrating successful women in technology all month long! Jo Hannaford has been in Technology for 24 years, and thinks of herself as fortunate for having the opportunity to pursue a career which she enjoys. “Technology is a fast-changing environment,” she explained, “I have […]
Welcome to The Glass Hammer’s “Women in Tech” month! We will be celebrating successful women in technology all month long! By Cathie Ericson Kimberly Bryant, tech founder of Black Girls CODE, wasn’t looking to start a non-profit, but realized the need was too great not to. After a series of engineering management roles at various […]
Welcome to The Glass Hammer’s “Women in Tech” month! We will be celebrating successful women in technology all month long! Justine Chen, senior manager at SunGard Consulting Services is deeply committed to getting more women interested in technology careers. Through her current role, Chen participates in a lot of community outreach and as a result, […]
Adda Birnir is the founder and CEO of Skillcrush, an online technical skills platform designed specifically for women. According to Birnir, her career path has been unconventional, but as she looks back at all of her experiences she is certain that each role she had in the past served as a building block and learning […]
Welcome to The Glass Hammer’s “Women in Tech” month! We will be celebrating successful women in technology all month long! Patricia Florissi, EMC Vice President and Global Chief Technology Officer, Sales, knew from a very young age that she had an affinity and a talent for math problems and logic puzzles. What she did not […]
By Cathie Ericson Lucy Sanders’, founder of NCWIT, interest in STEM fields started early. Her father was an early adopter, and her high school math teacher encouraged her by teaching her computer programming skills. Then she saw that her sister, who had earned one of the early computer science degrees, was enjoying enormous success and […]