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Job & Career Advice

You Asked, We Answered: Is It Harder Out There for Older Developers?

A coding bootcamp can seem like a big commitment at any phase of life, but mid-career aspiring programmers have unique concerns about their futures after coding bootcamp. Get answers to commonly asked questions in this post.
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Women in Tech

How Investors Can Leverage Their Power to Close the Gender Gap in Tech

Investors are responsible, in part, for causing the gender gap in tech. But they also have a big role to play in closing it.
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Women in Tech

How 7 Tech Companies Are Fighting Workplace Sexism

Workplace sexism in the tech industry is far too common. But these companies are using hiring, policies, transparency, and even technology itself to change that.
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Women in Tech

4 Things Tech Execs Can Do Right Now to Shrink the Industry’s Gender Gap

Tech’s gender gap is huge. But if tech executives create environments that foster and reward gender inclusion, it could start to diminish.
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Women in Tech

Women in STEM: 20 Organizations Working to Close Tech’s Gender Gap

The gender gap in STEM industries is still way too wide. But it’s narrowing all the time, thanks in no small part to the work of these 20 teaching organizations.
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Women in Tech

Be Inspired: 30 Female-Identifying Coders You Should be Following on Twitter

Here are 30 female-identifying coders you can follow and learn from as you make your own career in software development.
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Women in Tech

Bringing Black Panther to Life with Black Girls Code

Fullstack Academy and The Grace Hopper Program in Chicago partnered with Black Girls Code for the "Wakanda by Design: 3D Printing" workshop, which allowed young girls to design and create high-tech solutions inspired by the film.
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Women in Tech

Do Dedicated Hiring Quotas Close the Gender Gap in Tech?

Though many companies have committed to changing hiring practices to close the gender gap in tech, women continue to be severely underrepresented.
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Women in Tech

3 Days of Awesome Women: Grace Hopper Celebration 2018

Michele Cantos, Director of our Grace Hopper Program, attended the annual Grace Hopper Celebration in Houston. Check out her day-by-day recap of the amazing women she encountered at this event--and grab some digital swag for yourself.
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Mission Driven

Coding For Good: 20 Nonprofit Products Developed Using JavaScript

Some of the most awesome software products in the world are built using JavaScript. Here are 20 of the best of those products from the nonprofit sector.
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Women in Tech

A Night of Noms and Networking for Grace Hopper Chicago

This summer, a group of students, fellows, and Grace Hopper Track staff from the Chicago campus attended a networking event co-hosted by Google and Lesbians Who Tech + Allies. Find out what we learned, what we loved, and what we ate!
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Women in Tech

Finding Support Within the Women’s Coding Community

Jamie Lau was drawn to Grace Hopper Program's goal of making tech education more accessible to women--and now she's a software engineer. See how she did it.
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