Workplace Buzz: Today’s Headlines

Workplace Buzz on October 24, 2007 7:14 AM

Diversity in the Science World
For at least a decade, universities and federal agencies alike have been engaged in an interdisciplinary arms race, competing to expand interdisciplinary programs and opportunities at ever faster rates in the hopes of achieving that transformational breakthrough in research. At the same time, federal and local programs have been working against the clock, seeking to broaden participation of women and members of minority groups in science, mathematics, and engineering before the U.S. loses its competitive edge. Inside Higher Ed

A Democratic Workplace
This is the dawn of the most entrepreneurial and socially aware generation in history. Workers under 40 are passionate about corporate social responsibility, a greener environment and human rights - and we're creating businesses to advance those causes in the process. The challenge is, however, that we're not necessarily building workplaces that do the same. Instead, we're often relying on the same old command-and-control structures that are inconsistent with the progressive causes we've created our companies to support. The Baltimore Sun

Being Geeky
A venture capitalist who rejected Mary Hodder's start-up for funding later told her he did so in part because Hodder had no male co-founder, and he thought she would quit because she's a woman. Hodder didn't quit. Her video search and social networking Web site, dabble.com, is doubling its registered users every 2 1/2 months. Gender stereotypes like those, what they say about the male-skewed culture of Silicon Valley and its impact on the growing number of women in tech, were at the heart of the She's Geeky conference that convened Monday. San Jose Mercury News

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