Facebook creates new tech scholarship for moms

Hacker bootcamp school Hackbright will take 10 weeks to train the moms accepted into the program. During this time, old skills will get a refresh and new skills will be taught.

GitHub gets down with the ladies in Passion Project series

The developer company is giving women in the tech community -- especially devs and product designers -- a chance to speak out about what drives them.

Happy International Women’s Day — here’s an ugly new sexual harassment lawsuit in Silicon Valley

Three women charge CMEA Capital with 35 counts of sexual harassment. It gets ugly.

How Code.org is promoting an agenda of diversity & equality in the tech world

Code.org is an advocacy campaign focused at getting more kids interested in computer science. It's also working to get more states, schools, and teachers on board with the program.

#Cutting: One artist reacts to the Internet’s self-harming problem

"When I first saw a thinspiration blog, all I wanted to do was get it shut down. Then I saw how much my friends were getting from it. This wasn’t my battle; it was theirs."

Tackling tech’s gender problem the right way: Teaching women to code

In San Francisco, two guys are putting women through a 10-week bootcamp in software development. The goal: to change the gender ratio of the tech industry.

‘Call your mother,’ ‘Sh*t, dude,’ and other things your parents say on your Facebook wall

When parents get on the Internet, suddenly your Timeline is overflowing with bad country songs and embarrassing nicknames. These stats from Facebook break it down.

Google puts the focus on women tech stars with new web series

Next week, Google is presenting a web video series featuring brilliant, successful women in tech — specifically, women who develop and design technology and applications, and who advocate for more gender balance in our industries.

The series is part of …

Facebook goes totally gay for National Coming Out Day

The above is a sweet video our LGBT pals at Facebook cooked up for National Coming Out Day.

Facebook is one of the most openly supporting tech companies we’ve seen when it comes to queer issues. From taking on bullying …

Women in the C-suite: Marissa Mayer is in good company

When Marissa Mayer threw away her VP job at Google to take over as Yahoo’s new CEO, she was making a very conscious career decision, and one that would take her straight to the top of a huge, global company.…

Kleiner Perkins hit with sexual harassment allegations, partner sues for discrimination

Leading Silicon Valley venture capital firm Kleiner Perkins Caufield and Byers got hit with a sexual harassment and gender discrimination suit earlier this month, rocking a firm that has been known for bringing women into the venture capital industry.

The …

Dylan’s Desk: On eve of Facebook IPO, Silicon Valley’s gap with the rest of America widens

People often say Silicon Valley is not like the rest of the world. We’re more tolerant of failure, embrace risk-taking more eagerly, get more enthusiastic about technical solutions, and have a huge, deep pool of engineering and marketing talent to …

Need some inspiration, ladies? Meet the women of Forbes’ Midas List

Forbes today published its Midas List, an annual recounting of who’s who among the top investors around the globe.

We took a look at the tech sector, and of the top 100 investors chosen to be listed, only five were …