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    Innovating Women: The Changing Face of Technology

    By Vivek Wadhwa and Farai Chideya

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    "[A]​ ​solid contribution to the growing popular literature on the subject."—PUBLISHERS WEEKLY

    From one of Time Magazine's "Forty Most Influential Minds in Technology” comes an essential collection of candid, first-hand accounts of women in technology.

    Women in technology are on the rise in both power and numbers, and now it's more important than ever to not lose that momentum, to "lean in" and close the gender gap. Although they make up half of the population, only 14% of engineers in the United States are women. They take the seeds of technological advancement and build something life-changing, potentially life-saving. The future of technology depends on the full and active participation of women and men working together, and it is vital that women are both educated and encouraged to go into the tech sectors.

    Hailed by Foreign Policy Magazine as a “Top 100 Global Thinker,” professor, researcher, and entrepreneur Vivek Wadhwa, alongside award-winning journalist Farai Chideya, set out to collect anecdotes and essays from global leaders, sharing how their experiences in innovative industries frame the future of entrepreneurship. With interviews and essays from hundreds of women in STEM fields, including Anousheh Ansari the first female private sector space explorer, former Google[X] VP and current CTO of the USA Megan Smith, Ory Okolloh of the Omidyar Network, venture capitalist Heidi Roizen and CEO of Nanobiosym Dr. Anita Goel, MD, PhD, Innovating Women offers perspectives on the challenges that women face, the strategies that they employ in the workplace, and how an organization can succeed or fail in its attempts to support the career advancement of women. 

    Editor's Note

    Inspiring leaders…

    This personal & powerful collection of stories about female tech innovators frames the problematic gender gap in STEM fields, even as it inspires future entrepreneurs with true tales of the women who overcame stigmas & bias.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherDiversion Books
    Release dateSep 9, 2014
    ISBN9781626813830
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    Vivek Wadhwa

    VIVEK WADHWA is a distinguished fellow at Harvard Law School and Carnegie Mellon University's College of Engineering at Silicon Valley. He is the co-author of Your Happiness Was Hacked: Why Tech Is Winning the Battle to Control Your Brain - and How to Fight Back; The Immigrant Exodus: Why America Is Losing the Global Race to Capture Entrepreneurial Talent; and Innovating Women: The Changing Face of Technology. He has held appointments at Duke University, Stanford Law School, Emory University, and Singularity University. ALEX SALKEVER is a writer, futurist, and technology leader. He has served as a senior executive at a number of Silicon Valley startups and as a senior leader at respected brands in technology, most recently at Mozilla, where he served as a vice president.

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