The Bureau of Labor and Statistics reported last week that tech companies are currently hiring more women than men, with 60% of the jobs in tech created last year going to women. But the ratio of men to women in tech careers is still weighted toward the guys—women comprise less than one-third of the tech workforce, and men hold most of the engineering jobs at these companies. Sage North America’s Gabrielle Boko recently offered a few tips on CNN Money to help women succeed in the tech world. She recommends that women in tech fight for the ideas that are important to them, continue to expand their networks, especially through women-in-tech groups, and choose the companies they work for carefully. For example, women in tech should decide if there’s anyone in the upper management at a prospective employer whom they’d welcome as a mentor.
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The Streetcar Returns! And It’s Rescuing Tucson From the Recession
Streetcars were once a common feature in American cities. New York once had an expansive network that seamlessly linked its two largest boroughs. They were, however, largely abandoned after World War II as communities were designed around automobiles. However, in the wake of an energy crisis, the streetcar is experiencing a kind of renaissance. According to the Associated Press, Tucson is one of several cities planning to launch streetcar service to promote economic development. The city just finished a four-mile-long streetcar track that will run between the University of Arizona campus and downtown. “Roughly 150 businesses have opened their doors along the route in the last five years, and the once-dormant area is in the middle of a $230 million construction boom, according to the Downtown Tucson Partnership. The group estimates that 2,000 jobs have been created or relocated to the area,” according to Pew States. Michael Keith, CEO of the downtown group, says, “The fact that Tucson could reinvent itself in the middle of the worst recession to hit the state since 1928 is astonishing.”