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Megan Smith is the new U.S. chief technology officer. Ariel Zambelich/NPR hide caption

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From Silicon Valley To White House, New U.S. Tech Chief Makes Change

November 4, 2014 • Former Google X executive Megan Smith started this month as the U.S. chief technology officer. She's only the third person to have the job.

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A technician opens a vessel containing women's frozen egg cells in April 2011 in Amsterdam. AFP/Getty Images hide caption

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Silicon Valley Companies Add New Benefit For Women: Egg-Freezing

October 17, 2014 • The addition of the benefit by Facebook and Apple comes as tech companies face mounting pressure to hire more women, but some warn it may increase pressure those employees feel to put off having kids.

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Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella addresses the media during an event in New Delhi in September. This week, he was criticized for comments he made about women asking for raises. Adnan Abidi/Reuters/Landov hide caption

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Microsoft CEO Nadella's Remarks Add To Tech's Sexism Problem

October 10, 2014 • Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella is facing public criticism after his comments suggesting that women should not ask for raises. But they also underscore questions about tech's male-dominated culture.

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Microsoft CEO Backtracks On Suggestion That Women Shouldn't Ask For Raises

October 9, 2014 • During a talk at a conference about women in technology, Satya Nadella said those women who don't ask for raises would be compensated by "karma."

Respondents in a survey of women with engineering degrees said that many companies did not provide opportunities for women like them to advance and develop. iStockphoto hide caption

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Many Women Leave Engineering, Blame The Work Culture

August 12, 2014 • From the aerospace sector to Silicon Valley, engineering has a retention problem: Close to 40 percent of women with engineering degrees either leave the profession or never enter the field.

Actress and gamer Aisha Tyler hosted game developer Ubisoft's press conference at the Electronic Entertainment Expo in Los Angeles. The company was recently criticized for not animating female assassins in one of its new games. Lucy Nicholson/Reuters/Landov hide caption

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Critics Renew Calls For More Diverse Video Game Characters

June 13, 2014 • Women make up a significant proportion of dedicated gamers, but they were hardly represented on stage and in games previewed at a big game industry trade event in Los Angeles.

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Dame Stephanie Shirley took on the family nickname "Steve" so that her business proposals would be taken more seriously. The Commonwealth/Flickr hide caption

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How Dame Shirley Jumped Over Tech's Gender Gap In The 1960s

June 12, 2014 • Dame Stephanie "Steve" Shirley founded one of the U.K.'s first software startups, run almost entirely by women. The industry still has gender inequality, but Shirley showed alternatives were possible.

Record-breaking long-distance swimmer Diana Nyad speaks at the TEDWomen conference in San Francisco on Thursday. Marla Aufmuth/TED hide caption

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TEDWomen 2013: In Innovation, Age Is Nothing But A Number

December 8, 2013 • What do 64-year-old swimmer Diana Nyad and 13-year-old entrepreneur Maya Penn have in common? At the TEDWomen conference in San Francisco, a range of speakers shared the ways innovation and ingenuity kept them young.

TechCrunch's Disrupt 2012 conference in San Francisco. This year, two hackathon presentations ignited a firestorm. Max Morse/Getty Images hide caption

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