International Women’s Day

I have always been a tech-geek, and as a Marvel fan – I’ve also always been someone who believes that one single person (or one ultimate, diverse team) can save the world. That’s why I’m so passionate about cybersecurity and my modern-day heroes – Cisco’s Cybersecurity Engineers! Heroes comes in all…

As we celebrate International Women’s Day, it’s time to take stock of what we are most passionate about as professional women. For me, as the leader of Cisco’s Partner Organization in APJC (Asia, Pacific, Japan and China), I am most passionate about Partners and the unique ways they bring Cisco’s te…

Living Goods combines game-changing technology, quality products, and vital health services to empower community health workers (CHWs) to deliver on-call care to their neighbors’ doorsteps. And, they earn a livelihood while doing it.  Cisco was an early supporter of Living Goods’ work to leverage te…

I have a question for you. Have you ever felt like you’ve truly made it? I know in my case, the answer is no. I suspect that’s true for a lot of other women, too. Maybe it’s because they’re fighting impostor syndrome in spite of their success, or maybe it’s because they haven’t quite reached the hei…

At Cisco, inclusion and diversity are central to who we are. I’m incredibly proud to work for a company that has one of the most diverse Executive Leadership Teams in the industry – 42% women and 58% diverse in terms of gender and ethnicity. Cisco is focused on enabling full-spectrum diversity, incl…

This post was guest-written by Reshma Saujani, the Founder and CEO of Girls Who Code, a national nonprofit organization working to close the gender gap in technology and change the perception of programmers. Originally, Girls Who Code was an experiment with a single mission: to close the gender gap…

When the Olympics wrapped up in PyeongChang last week, the U.S. walked away with 23 medals—57 percent of which were won by women! I’m not sure if this is a first, but it certainly represents a trend in the right direction—in all the Winter Olympics since 1924, women have won just 40 percent of the m…

Sara Chipps is a JavaScript developer based in New York City. She has been working on Software and the Open Source Community since 2001. She’s been obsessed with hardware and has been a part of NodeBots since 2012. She is the CEO of Jewelbots, a company dedicated to drastically changing the number o…

Be bold for change. These words are the call to action for this year’s International Women’s Day (Wednesday, ‪March 8). They call attention to women’s issues around the world – top of mind for so many of us. They also focus on our ability to address these issues and recreate the world according to a…