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Press releases from Women’s Agenda.
Women to watch today: The millennials who don’t want kids; the mums hit by family payments crackdown, and more
WSJ: Tech Firms Pledge to Hire Alumni From ‘Girls Who Code’ Short but very interesting article from the WSJ blogs about active and effective steps to get more women in STEM The founder of Girls Who Code has taken the next step and started signing up companies to hire the women who have learned valuable technical skills.
Women to watch today: media focus, language of gender pay gap and Clara Shih on tech
CNN: Sheryl Sandberg: Bring back ‘feminist’ and toss out ‘bossy’ Quick piece summarising Sandberg’s speech at Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing.
Women to watch: women at the top, religion and sexism, Julia Gillard the international superstar
The Australian: Firms serious on gender diversity, but there’s more to be done Report on the gender balance of corporate boards in Australia.
Women to watch: Anne-Marie Slaughter’s new understanding of equality, diversity tied to income and new data about violence
Washington Post: Nurses, fathers, teachers, mothers.
Women to Watch: male panel aren’t random, paid leave works, work/life for men, female fighter pilots and yah boo sucks to sexism
The Atlantic: The Odds That a Panel Would ‘Randomly’ Be All Men Are Astronomical This is a fabulous interview with mathematician Greg Martin, who has proven that it is a statistical impossibility that all male panels can occur in truly random selection.
Women to watch: Happy birthday Alice and Hilary, Anne-Marie Slaughter’s husband, women and climate change
The Conversation: Worldwide, climate change is worse news for women We know women suffer inequitable economic and health outcomes in developing countries.