Gunpriya Sarpate, a Twitter user wrote, that being the only girl from her Basti (slum) to study computer science, she had to travel several kilometres daily to attend classes. She added that she used to look around her neighbourhood and keep saying to herself, “I’ll make it outta here”

  Computer science, as we know it today, is mainly a male-dominated field. But statistics reveal that till a couple of decades back, the number of women in the field was on the rise. According to data provided by National Science Foundation, American Bar Association, and American Association of Medical Colleges; women in computer science […]

Brian Welle, People Analytics Manager and Megan Smith, former vice president of new business development at Google; discovered (or were called out for) representing a very low percentage of women in Google doodles. Starting out with celebrating absolutely no women, the percentage slightly shot up but according to latest statistics, 62% of all the honorees […]

The need for women in STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Mathematics) jobs is being widely discussed everywhere across the world. Women like Sheryl Sandberg and Marissa Mayer have disproved decades old notions and the tech world is now looking forward to hiring women. The question is how do we ensure the availability of women in the […]