Freelance lifestyle and entertainment journalist
Written for FLARE‘s 9-5. When you started studying computer science at Dal, how many women were in your classes? Very few, sadly. It started out at around 17 percent but it dwindled over the years. That’s the unfortunate reality about being a woman in tech: it’s always a higher percentage when you start and then people […]
Written for Mediaplanet’s Women in Technology campaign. Published in print inside the Maclean’s on October 12, 2015. When Microsoft software development engineer Dr. Jenna Butler first started exploring computer science, she did not expect it to reroute her career path. Her passion was studying cancer, but she didn’t see how computers could connect to that pursuit. While doing her […]
Ishani Nath 