Top 5 Gender Diversity Apps for the Workplace
Technology has proven a great leveler across society. It has brought together people across distances who would never have met before. It has also provided tools to groups that the workplace has historically placed at a disadvantage.
This month the EmployDiversity Network (EDN) offers an article about how technology is empowering women to erode traditional barriers to entry into business. Digital technologies are also helping them grow their careers and build supportive networks with other women. Top 5 Gender Diversity Apps for the Workplace talks about how a handful of apps are making a huge difference for women around the world.
The apps the article discusses include:
The Gender Diversity Exchange
Workwide Women
Adalab
PowertoFly.com
and Cajigo
Read about how these websites and mobile apps are giving women the networking, communications, and educational opportunities that help them move ahead in the world of work.
Another group that is benefiting from digital and computing technology is disabled citizens. EDN’s article Enabling Technologies for the Disabled explores the impact several lawsuits brought by disabled users of websites and apps have had on the corporate landscape. The piece looks at technology vendors like Microsoft, Apple, and Facebook. They are opening their platforms to programmers to develop software that gives disabled users the same facility with appications as mainstream users. The article also describes the hardware that is helping the visualy impaired see and those with spinal injuries walk.
And finally, in 1979, a young girl named Melissa Rich asked her mother Lois why there were no women trading cards. So Lois decided to produce her own set called “supersisters”. The card set was made up of 72 trading cards that highlighted inspirational women. Many of the women were athletes.
Exactly 40 years later, this podcast program reunites Melissa, Lois, and some of the supersisters. They discuss some of the experiences based on the cards. They also talk about the importance of icons in women’s sport.
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Raul Ray
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