The following two upcoming events identify strategies for attracting women into technology careers:

The American Association of University Women (AAUW), the nation’s leading voice promoting equity and education for women and girls, has recently completed new research that takes a deeper dive into why engineering and computing, fields that offer 80 percent of STEM jobs, still boast dismal numbers of women students and workers.

On March 26th, you can watch the launch event for Solving the Equation: The Variables for Women’s Success in Engineering and Computing live from Samsung’s new research facility in Silicon Valley to find out why women aren’t in these fields – and what we as employers, educators, and parents can do about it.

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The National Science Foundation is sponsoring a free online telesummit, “STEM Success for Women: Empower Educators to Recruit and Retain More Women in STEM,” happening from April 13th – April 16th.

This telesummit brings together some of the country’s leading experts and practitioners on the successful recruitment and retention of women in STEM. Over the course of 4 days and more than 10 sessions, you will learn of many studies and strategies about increasing diversity in STEM.

Including:

• The recruitment strategies that increased female enrollment in introductory  computer programming courses by 62%.
• How a computer networking IT department improved female enrollment by more than 46% and increased retention of female students by 23% (and male students by 7%).

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