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International | Technology

How one woman’s app is changing politics in the digital age

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For a woman whose day-to-day work revolves around reimagining democracy for the digital era, Pia Mancini is pretty relaxed. On a windy day in San Francisco, where the Argentine political scientist is based, she Skypes me between meetings, her hair whipping across her face in the breeze. The 33-year-old has worked for thinktanks, in public policy and on a range of political campaigns. But in recent years she has devoted her time to launching non-profit organisations and venture-backed collaborative projects that could change the way citizens engage with politics all over the world. “The
International | Entrepreneurship

Bridgit takes top prize at Google for Entrepreneurs’ inaugural women’s demo day

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Lauren Lake and Mallorie Brodie, co-founders of Waterloo Region’s Bridgit, took top prize at Google for Entrepreneur’s inaugural Demo Day: Women’s Edition. The event was spurred by the fact that female founders get just 3-4 percent of the venture captial pie, despite the amazing companies they’re building globally. To be eligible to compete, the startups needed at least one female founder and to be actively raising a Series A round between $1,000,000 and $5,000,000. Google for Entrepreneurs received 450 applications from over 40 countries, and Bridgit was among the 11 female-led
International | Crimes

Hackers Are Sneaking Into Women’s Webcams and Posting the Footage on YouTube

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Here’s more evidence that you’re not a tinfoil hat-wearing conspiracy theorist if you cover your webcam with a post-it note. According to a new report by digital rights group Digital Citizens Alliance, hackers are hijacking the webcams of women and girls and uploading the intimate footage to YouTube for profit. The report, which was released at the Black Hat conference, describes how hackers known as “ratters” use a special kind of malware called a remote access trojan, or RAT, to gain access to a victim’s computer and control their webcams. Trojans account for 70 percent of al
International | Activism

Women Challenge Gender Stereotypes With #ILookLikeAnEngineer

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After an engineer from California posted a photo of herself with the hashtag, women descended on social media to contribute their photos and badass skills. On Aug. 1, Isis Anchalee published a short essay in Medium in which she shared her experiences as a female engineer. Anchalee, who works in the San Francisco Bay Area, spoke of the mistreatment she has received both in the workplace — a colleague once threw dollar bills at her during work hours — and as a result of an engineering recruitment ad that features her photo, shown above. Near the bottom of her essay, Anchalee (her middle n
International | Design

This Innovative Hijab Keeps Muslim Women Athletes Cool

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A new apparel company called Veil is trying to make life easier for Muslim women athletes who wear the headscarf. Their debut product is called the Cool Dry, a headscarf that is not only waterproof, but also promises to be climate-adaptable. The scarf is equipped with cooling technology that reflects heat rather than absorbing it, keeping the fabric seven to 10 degrees Farenheit cooler than the outside temperature. As a bonus perk, the scarf is laser-cut, which means the edges won’t chafe with excessive movement. “Athletic companies have been producing weather performance gear for years
International | Crimes

From Delhi to Port Moresby, cities take baby steps to make women feel safer

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Going out for dinner and not sure which area would be safer at night for a woman traveling on her own? Want to track your daughter to ensure she gets back from college safely? A map-based mobile safety app may be your answer. Safetipin, designed by the charity Jagori uses crowd sourcing to rate the safety of areas in Delhi based on factors including lighting, population density, transport and gender diversity. It also acts as a personal GPS tracker, allowing users to be tracked or to trace a loved one. Safetipin is one of thousands of projects being rolled out in cities across the wor
International | Society

Meet 12 Women In STEM Who Just Broke The Glass Ceiling

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As more women assume positions of power in the STEM world, scientists hope more women may be encouraged to pursue STEM careers of their own. "There were very few senior women ahead on the path, and mentoring opportunities were rare, but just knowing those few women were successes gave me hope," Dr. C. Megan Urry, professor of physics and astronomy at Yale University in New Haven, Conn., told The Huffington Post about her own experience as a young scientist. "Although people may be tired of the word 'role model' the fact is, role models are incredibly important." To acknowledge recent ach
International | Science

This is what a female engineer looks like

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Last summer, we were lamenting the lack of women engineers in the media. There are tons of articles and data about how women are a minority in the software industry, which is a sad reality. Meanwhile, the few articles that specifically showcase women in tech create an unattainable archetype of a woman that somehow manages to run marathons, raise a family, always looks impeccable, and marginalizes the amazing technology that she built. As software engineers, we get asked a lot about what it’s like to be a woman in tech. We decided to take control and do something about it, and that’s how
International | Science

#GirlsWithToys Proves Women Belong in Science

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"Many scientists, I think, secretly are what I call 'boys with toys,'" California Institute of Technology astronomy and planetary science professor Shrinivas Kulkarni told NPR in an interview published Saturday. Kulkarni may have intended to counter the false assumption that science can't be fun, but in referring to these scientists as "boys" he erased an already marginalized population of the field: Women. That's why female scientists took to Twitter to remind the world they may be underrepresented in the field, but they're doing crucial work — and having as much fun doing so as their mal
International | Entrepreneurship

4 Girls Who Will Not Shut Up

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Carolyn Malachi’s “Nothing” is the perfect anthem for the IGNITE International Girls Hackathon where girls around the world created innovative and incredible solutions to our safe spaces challenge — all in less than 24 hours! Join us in celebrating the fierceness of this year’s winning team from Brazil and their app Não Me Calo!  “Não Me Calo” means “I will not shut up” in the app creators’ native Portuguese. The app lets women and girls review and rank restaurants and other public spaces based on how they treat women and girls!  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6nu33
International | Culture

Mothers of Innovation: 12 Women Engineers and Scientists to Know

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March is Women's History Month in the United States, so get ready for a history lesson. On the following pages and links below, you'll find a list of 12 women who have made significant contributions to engineering, science, technology, and mathematics. Many reading this will know some of the women named here, maybe even all, but many reading this will know none. These women are mothers of innovation and STEM (science, technology, engineering, and math) exploration, whose work has influenced the course of humanity and who have pioneered new fields like Tesla, Moore, and other engineer
International | Business

Uber partnership with UN women’s group hits dead end

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It looks like a United Nations group devoted to women's rights won't be partnering with controversial car-hailing service Uber after all. "UN Women will not accept an offer to collaborate on job creation with Uber, so you can rest assured about that," the group's executive director, Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka, said last week during an event at the UN's 59th session of the Commission on the Status of Women (CSW59), which wrapped up yesterday in New York after a two-week run. A short clip of Mlambo-Ngcuka's remark surfaced on YouTube earlier this week. In a statement sent to various news outle
International | Science

Woman Cosmonaut Elena Serova (and Two Guys) Return From Orbit

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The first Russian woman to live aboard the International Space Station returned to Earth on Thursday, alongside a NASA astronaut and a Russian crewmate. Cosmonaut Elena Serova was the last to emerge from the Soyuz capsule after its touchdown amid the foggy, snowy steppes of Kazakhstan, not long after sunrise on Thursday (10:07 p.m. ET Wednesday). She was preceded out of the hatch by the Soyuz craft's Russian commander, Alexander Samokutyaev; and the space station's outgoing commander, NASA astronaut Barry "Butch" Wilmore. Serova is only the fourth Russian woman to go into outer space, and th
International | Science

5 women scientists from the developing world you need to know

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For women everywhere, breaking into the STEM field—science, technology, engineering, and mathematics—is tough enough. But pile hunger and poverty on top of gender bias? Sounds almost impossible. It’s not, as has been demonstrated by many formidable women from thedeveloping world. On Sunday in San Jose, California, the oldest scientific organization in the United States, the American Association for the Advancement of Science, honored five of them: one mathematician and four physicists from Sudan, Nigeria, and Vietnam. Despite the odds, they’ve shown that their fields would not be a

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