Announcements

AnitaB.org Announces 2019 BRAID Affiliate Schools to Support Women and Minority Students in Computing Programs

AnitaB.org is proud to announce its five Building, Recruiting, And Inclusion for Diversity (BRAID) affiliate schools, in its fifth-year: Boston University, Colorado State University, Kean University, Temple University, and University of Melbourne. BRAID Affiliates are institutions that have committed to increasing the diversity of their computing departments but do not receive funding through the BRAID…

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Paycheck Fairness Act – The Historically Diverse 116th Congress Tries Again

Policy & Engagement at AnitaB.org On April 2, 2019, the average woman will have finally earned what her male peer earned during the 2018 calendar year. That’s right — 15 months to earn what her male peer earned in 12. Each year, the day on which the earnings of the average U.S. woman is finally…

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Leaders at AnitaB.org Partner Companies Among Top 100 Most Powerful Women in the World

Forbes released its list of the world’s most powerful women, and we were thrilled to see many leaders from our partner organizations were featured. Tech superstars such as Ginni Rometty, CEO of IBM, and Safra Catz, Co-CEO of Oracle, were among those who made the list. Many past Grace Hopper Celebration speakers were also highlighted, such…

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AnitaB.org CEO on Diversity Efforts: “We’re Doing It Wrong”

In a recent contribution to Mashable’s “Voices of Women in Tech” series, AnitaB.org President and CEO Brenda Darden Wilkerson pulls no punches. Addressing the persistent inability of technology companies to close the gender and diversity gaps in their workforce numbers, she comes right out and calls the industry’s effort to date a broad failure. “If…

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Our New Name and Logo Reflect Our Community

On October 4, 2017, the first day of the Grace Hopper Celebration, our organization announced that we would no longer call ourselves the Anita Borg Institute. Our new name — AnitaB.org — still honors our founder while reflecting our move away from a formal, bureaucratic attitude and toward a warmer, more personal feeling; the “.org”…

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Bringing the World’s Largest Gathering of Women Technologists to You

AnitaB.org’s Grace Hopper Celebration (GHC) brings together the brightest lights among women in computing – both established leaders and young up-and-comers – as well as male allies interested in changing the tech culture to be more inclusive and reflective of diversity. Now that this has become a hot-button issue that companies like Google, Facebook and…

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