Hacking for Equality: Women in Tech

As the Nation Center for Women & Information Technology say “We are missing out on the innovations, solutions, and creations that 50% of the population could bring.”  Women are still under-represented in the STEM fields.  This month’s Innovation Economics features the Co-CEO of the Equalithons:Hack-a-thons for Equality, Marie Roker-Jones. Her company Essteem has been taking an innovative approach to closing the gap for women in technology fields and their participating companies are seeing an increase in tech innovation quality (+15%), +20% productivity, and 2x investor ROI as a result.  Come learn more about how they are doing it!

What is Innovation Economics:

Innovation Economics is series

• focused on sharing why entrepreneurship is so critical for economic development
• what we as a community can do to set startups up for success
• Each month, we’ll invite a national thought-leader to join us and share the work they are doing to support all types of entrepreneurs and local economies
• The goal is to explore these new ideas and use them as inspiration for policies and programs here in Tucson