Alison Wesley

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  Alison commented on the article | about 3 years ago

  The One Thing You Need to Know Before You Donate to Charity this Holiday Season

  In addition to giving of our time and resources for the holidays, this month we are also celebrating International Volunteer Day.
  
  I work for Intel and am one of 54 percent of our employees who volunteered time this year and helped to meet our goal of contributing 1 million volunteer hours. Check out my blog where I've included three quick tech tips on volunteering your time and resources this holiday season.
  s well.

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  Alison commented on the article | about 3 years ago

  Women In Tech: A Dying Breed?

  I found your post very timely.  I recently wrote a post related to this topic (see complete post at www.tinyURL.com/679sju - "Can You Hear the Ceiling Shattering?").
  
  I work at Intel and our second Female Fellow was announced recently (this is the highest level in the technical track at our company, equivalent to vice president on the management track). 
  
  During the recent presidential election, there was a focus on glass ceilings being shattered. This sentiment was top of mind for me when I read that Dr. Genevieve Bell was named as an Intel Fellow. Genevieve joins Kelin Kuhn as the second female Intel Fellow, and both women share a passion for technology and how it's positively impacting our lives.
  
  For many years there has been discussion about the "glass ceiling" for women in tech, specifically the lack of females in technology, science and math careers.
  
  We ask ourselves...
  How do we attract more females into science and math?
  
  Why do women continue to earn cents-on-the-dollar to a man?
  
  Why do men continue to be the lead designers of tech products that are purchased by many women?
  
  Why don't more engineers understand that designing products for women means more than making them pink?
  
  I have heard a lot about a need for change in the recent political race in the U.S. I think that change is also coming to the tech industry and not just so SV companies can fulfill an equal opportunity charter that HR has set out for them.
  
  I believe that more women will lead the technology revolution because not only is it fair and right, but because it's good business. Having people represented at the "management table" who offer different points of view, have different backgrounds and bring varying perspectives makes businesses more successful, better able to compete, and reach new and broader audiences.
  
  Perhaps the tech industry will be guided by the Chinese Proverb -- "Be not afraid of going slowly, be afraid only of standing still." And hence, with patience, we both look up to today's tech leaders like Genevieve and Kelin and look forward to the day when even more women and girls will share this esteemed spotlight.