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Mothers of Invention Face Technical Taliban

By Deepa Kandaswamy ● Arts & Culture ● March 2, 2005

For Women’s History Month, Deepa Kandaswamy points out that women invented paper, produced the pie chart and distilled perfume. But “technical Talibanism,” she says, obscures those contributions and handicaps female inventors today.

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Women Pioneer Biofuel to Save Mother Earth

By Kristin Bender ● Uncategorized ● November 21, 2004

Women are pioneering the emerging biofuels industry. They are advocates for a new source of energy: Vegetable oil that cooked French fries is recycled to power cars and trucks and produce far fewer emissions than diesel fuel.

California’s Prop 71 Divides Debate on Stem Cells

By Rebecca Vesely ● Politics ● October 26, 2004

An alliance of pro-choice activists in California is splitting with usual allies to oppose a popular stem-cell research proposition. The group says the initiative does not adequately protect poor women from becoming a biological marketplace.

Florida’s Castor Wages Fight of Her Career

By Nancy Cook Lauer ● Employment ● October 24, 2004

As she struggles to win a seat in the U.S. Senate, Betty Castor is in the fight of her career. In the latest debate, the EMILY’S List favorite challenged her opponent by voicing support for choice and stem-cell research.

Designing Women Focus on Video Games

By Sandy Kobrin ● Uncategorized ● September 19, 2004

A small band of female video-game designers and savants banded together last week to tempt and help more women into the industry. More female designers, they reason, will leaven the powerful medium’s sex-toy portrayal of women.

Tech Cluster Ventures Into Social Change

By Stephanie Hiller ● Uncategorized ● April 19, 2004

The Women’s Technology Cluster is known for helping business-world women. But now it also supports endeavors such as Upwardly Global and Girls for a Change and incubates them as they grow toward self-sufficiency.

Kenya Takes Steps to Develop Women Scientists

By David Karanja ● Uncategorized ● February 11, 2003

In a Kenya, few women are enrolled in colleges or universities in any academic field, and science and technology is no exception. But experts are concentrating on closing the gender gap in this important arena.

African Tech Mavens Take on Gender Digital Divide

By Shauna Curphey ● Uncategorized ● October 6, 2002

African businesswomen who have found success in the United States are giving back to their homelands. They’re bringing the Internet and other computer technology to those who use it least: their counterparts in Africa.

Women in Tech Seeing Big Paychecks, Opportunities

By Rebecca Vesely ● Employment ● June 25, 2002

Women have more career opportunities in technology than ever before and these high-skilled jobs can provide a path to power suits and corporate suites, a new survey has found.

More Women, Girls Needed in Tech Fields

By Phoebe Nobles ● Uncategorized ● November 29, 2001

Experts at a conference on “Women and Girls in the High Tech Economy” called for a drive to train more women and girls, saying that though business now is sluggish, the economy will rebound and business will be inseparable from technology.