This document will hold a list of various resources (such as articles, tutorials, podcasts, etc) that may be beneficial for women in tech. The list is not limited to coding.
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- Topics: Topic 1, Topic 2, Topic 3
Cracking the Coding Interview, 6th Edition is here to help you through this process, teaching you what you need to know and enabling you to perform at your very best. I've coached and interviewed hundreds of software engineers. The result is this book.
- Topics: Interviews
You will learn how to Get Ahead, Stand Out, Become More Visible, and Advocate for Yourself as a woman in tech.
- Topics: Self-worth, Advocate
This book describes the experiences and successes of female innovators and entrepreneurs in the still largely male-dominated tech-world in twenty candid interviews. It highlights the varied life and career stories that lead these women to the top positions in the technology industry that they are in now.
- Topics: Advice, Interviews
Perfect for aspiring coders everywhere, Girl Code is the story of two teenage tech phenoms who met at Girls Who Code summer camp, teamed up to create a viral video game, and ended up becoming world famous.
- Topics: Young Developers
Girl Code: Unlocking the Secrets to Success, Sanity, and Happiness for the Female Entrepreneur by Cara Alwill Leyba
Girl Code is a roadmap for female entrepreneurs, professional women, “side hustlers” (those with a day job plus a part-time small business), and anyone in between.
- Topics: Entrepreneurship
Part how-to, part girl-empowerment, and all fun, from the leader of the movement championed by Sheryl Sandberg, Malala Yousafzai, and John Legend.
- Topics: Young Developers
Hello Ruby is half picture book and half activity book rolled into one adorable package. It introduces programming without requiring a computer at all.
- Topics: Young Developers
Pearl and Pascal take their coding adventures to the amusement park in this follow-up picture book from our Girls Who Code program!
- Topics: Young Developers
Jenny Blake reveals that the success of your next career move depends on your ability to determine your best move. This book encourages women to strategize their biggest strengths to ensure that their next career puts them in a position to achieve their goals.
- Topics: Advice, Changing Careers
The main character, Sasha Savvy, is a super smart 10-year old African-American girl, who lives in Washington, DC. Sasha must choose which class to take for summer camp.
- Topics: Young Developers
Women of Color in Tech: A Blueprint for Inspiring and Mentoring the Next Generation of Technology Innovators by Susanne Tedrick
Women of Color in Tech: A Blueprint for Inspiring and Mentoring the Next Generation of Technology Innovators seeks to help women of color overcome the obstacles that prevent them from pursuing and staying in tech careers.
- Topics: Diversity
Women in Tech: Take Your Career to the Next Level with Practical Advice and Inspiring Stories by Tarah Wheeler
As the CEO of a startup, Tarah Wheeler is all too familiar with the challenges female tech professionals face on a daily basis. That’s why she’s teamed up with other high-achieving women within the field—from entrepreneurs and analysts to elite hackers and gamers—to provide a roadmap for women looking to jump-start, or further develop, their tech career.
- Topics: Advice
CoderDojo has built a global network of free, volunteer-led, community-based programming clubs for young people. Anyone between 7-17 years old can visit a Dojo where they can learn to code, build a website, or create an app or a game in a creaive and social environment.
- Topics: Education, Events, Volunteer
DLD (Digital-Life-Design) have created an interdisciplinary and internationally connected platform for people eager to change the world in the digital era. They host global events (DLD All Stars, DLD Sync, and many more)that are geared towards young entrepreneurs looking to get an all-around look at coding, data, business, social media, and more.
- Topics: Entrepreneutrship, Events
Lesbians Who Tech & Allies is a community of LGBTQ women, non-binary and trans individuals in and around tech with goals of inclusivity and diversity in tech. They offer a virtual queer inclusive summits such as (Not IRL) Pride Summit with speakers from all backgrounds and sponsor inclusivity in all of their talks. They also offer coding scholarships through their bootcamp partners and a jobs board through include.io.
- Topics: Events, Jobs Board, Networking, Scholarships
Microsoft Ignite host many events such as product roundtables and events geared towards women in tech. They also provide coding resources, networking opportunities, and archived sessions of past events.
- Topics: Coding Resources, Events, Networking
Join us monthly for mentoring sessions with This Dot Lab. The goal for these sessions is to provide a resource for women in the tech industry. Whether it’s advice on technical skills or personal growth, we would love to help you grow a foundation for professional success!
- Topics: Advice, Mentoring, Resources, Networking
SheHacks is Canada's largest all-female non-binary hackathon that has since grown into other branches like TechTogether. Their virtual events invite people of all experience, background, and gender identity to turn their tech ideas into reality. As of 2021, they are adding events such as Hacker Olympics, Startups Panels, and Speed Networking events.
- Topics: Coding Resources, Events, Networking
Branched off of SheHacks, TechTogether is one of the world's largest all-female hackathons to adopt gender-inclusive language and policies.
- Topics: Coding Resources, Events
Hosted by meetup.com, Women in Engineering groups are hosted all around the world and focus on STEM-related activities, Engineering, Education, and much more.
- Topics: Education, Events, STEM
Hosted by meetup.com, Women in Technology groups are hosted worldwide and focus on promoting women's community and involvement in technology industries. Related topics include web development, entrepreneurship, new technology, and more.
- Topics: Events, Entrepreneurship
Women Powering Technology is an organization with local chapters in Canada created to inspire, support, elevate, and empower women in technology personally, professionaly, and together as a community. They offer valuable workshops, events that spark networking opportunities, and a blog that outlines panels and tips for women in tech. They also work with Technovation, a flagship program for the world's largest global tech entrepreneurship competition for girls.
- Topics: Blog, Events, Networking, Volunteer
Write/Speak/Code is a group that empowers women and non-binary software developers to become leaders, public speakers, and open source contributors. They run event, conferences, and workshops across the United States.
- Topics: Education, Events
Future of StoryTelling is a community of people from worlds of media, technology, and communications who are exploring how storytelling is evolving in the digital age. In addition to podcasts, they host a two day event and a wide range of content, programming, and workshops.
- Topics: Coding Resources, Events
Girls in Tech offers over 50 chapters worldwide that creates a community of women who are passionate in changing tech. Their podcast highlights various women in their prospective fields and how tech has influenced their work. They also offer a blog and a jobs site for women in tech.
- Topics: Blog, Jobs Board
Hosted by Nicole Johnson Scheffler and Kathleen Norton-Schock - Diva Tech Talk is a specialized communication channel highlighting women doing wonderful things in the technology arena by creating podcasts from interviews with successful female individuals in the field and covering various technology events.
- Topics: Self-worth
Hosted by Alex Morton - Episodes cover the coding journey and how new developers can expand their mindset to thrive in the coding field.
- Topics: New Developer
Hosted by Emma Bostian, Sidney Buckner, Ali Spittel, and Kelly Vaughn - We started the Ladybug Podcast as a few lady Twitter acquaintances looking to add our voices to the male-dominated tech podcast space.
- Topics: Advice
Hosted by This Dot - Discussions of tech with strong females in tech.
- Topics: Advice
Brought by Kody with Klossy, Sam and Jenny uncover stories of techsetters; hearing guests' career defining moments and unconventional paths in the tech world.
- Topics: Changing Careers
Hosted by Espree Devora - The purpose of the show is for every listener to walk away feeling 'If She Can Do It So Can I'.
- Topics: Self-worth
Hosted by Edaena Salinas - A podcast about what we work on, not what it feels like to be a woman in tech.
- Topics: Typical Day
Based out of London, Ada's List virtually connects women to encourage a more inclusive and diverse environment in the tech industry. They provide resources such as a jobs channel, events, conferences, and courses with a discount, and opportunities for mentorship and support.
- Topics: Coding Resources, Education, Events, Jobs Board, Mentorship, Networking
Ada Developers Academy is a nonprofit, tuition-free coding school for women and gender diverse adults. They focus on serving low income people, underrepresented minorities, and members of the LGBTQIA+ community. Their program combines classroom training and a paid, learning internship to teach students how to write code and how to become a software developer.
- Topics: Education
AkiraChix is committed to the diversity and inclusion of women in the technical workforce and changing the economic capabilities of young women to shift societal norms. They offer codeHive, a one year fully subsidized residential hands-on technical training program based out of East Africa that provides education and economic opportunity to young women between 18-24 years old from socio-economically disadvantaged backgrounds.
- Topics: Education, Mentorship
AnitaB.org connects, inspires, and guides women in computing while supporting them in technical fields, as well as organizations that employ them and academic institutions that train the next generation.
- Topics: Education, Events, Scholarships
Black Girls Code provides young and pre-teens girls of color opportunities to learn in-demand skills in technology and computer programming to become builders of technological innovation. They also provide events open to the public ranging from hackathons to enrichment seminars.
- Topics: Events, Hackathon, Mentorship, Scholarships
Built by Girls prepares female and non-binary students to step boldly into careers powered by technology. They provide support via mentorship, events to develop tactical skills, and access to networking connections and beyond.
- Topics: Events, Mentorship, New Developer
Canada Learning code brings accessible computer science to communities across Canada, particularly to support women-identified, transgender and beyond binary individuals. They provide workshops with their Code Squad, whose mission is to put technology in the hands of Canadians who may not otherwise have the experience.
- Topics: Education, Mentorship, Volunteer
codebar is a charity that facilitates the growth of a diverse tech community by running free regular programming workshops for minority groups in tech. They offer coaches, events, tutorials, and a blog that highlights many women in tech.
- Topics: Blog, Education, Mentorship, Volunteer
Coding For Her is dedicated to inviting girls and women to the world of technology through their resources and workshop classes. They aim to help aspiring female coders and entrepreneurs to learn digital software and website-building through casual, friendly, and intimate workshops.
- Topics: Blog, Education
Various women in tech that you should follow.
- Topics: Networking
Girl Develop It is a nonprofit organization that creates welcoming, supportive opportunities for women and non-binary adults to learn software development skills.
- Topics: Education, Events
Girl Geek X helps host events, create networking connections, and offer a job board for women in tech. An archive of prior podcasts are also available for listening.
- Topics: Events, Job Board, Networking
Created by Marie-Philippe Gill, this blog outlines her life as an undergraduate student and combines her passion for journalism and technology. She uses this medium to promote women in tech, how-to's, and tutorials.
- Topics: Blog, Coding Resources
Girls Who Code is on a mission to close the gender gap in technology and to change the image of what a programmer looks like and does.
- Topics: Summer Programs
Hackbright's driving mission is to change the ratio in engineering and technology by providing the industry with strong, smart, and talented women. They offer courses, career development, mentorship, and an alumnae network.
- Topics: Education, Mentorship, Networking
The Julia Evans blog highlights the excitement of programming and how to understand the underlying systems in coding to create technically innovative work that enable you to solve hard problems. Her brag documents blog specifically outline how to create a brag document, which helps you get your work recognized.
- Topics: Advocate, Blog, Self-worth
Kode With Klossy creates learning experiences and opportunities for young women that increase their confidence and inspire them to pursue their passions in a technology driven world.
- Topics: Education, New Developer, Scholarships
MotherCoders wants to create economic opportunity to catalyze social change by helping moms break into tech and enhance gender equality in the digital age.
- Topics: Events, Training
Out in Tech unites the LGBTQ+ tech community by creating opportunities for their members to advance their careers, grow their networks, and leverage tech for social change.
- Topics: Community, Job Board, Networking
PyLadies is a global mentorship group focused on helping more marginalized genders become active participants & leaders in the Python open-source community. Their twitter @PyLadies is also active in promoting women worldwide.
- Topics: Mentorship
Rewriting the Code supports and empowers all women in tech through intersectional communities, mentorship, industry experience, and education resources.
- Topics: Coding Resources, Education, Mentorship, New Developer
She’s Coding is a nonprofit organization that developed this open-source project in cooperation with the documentary film CODE: Debugging the Gender Gap. They provide education, resources, and actionable guidelines for anyone who wants to help bridge the gender gap in the computer science field.
- Topics: Education, Mentorship, Volunteer
Skillcrush offers courses to help more women, people of color, the LGBTQ+ community, people with disabilities, people without college degrees, and others break into the tech world. They offer courses in coding, design, user experience, and digital marketing.
- Topics: Education, New Developer, Mentorship
Stemettes is an award-winning social enterprise working across the UK and beyong to inspire and support young women and non-binary people into STEM. They offer a series of cohort programs, events, and content platforms for women in share ideas and connect.
- Topics: Blog, Networking, STEM
Tech Ladies is a worldwide community that provides support via an online group, job board, and opportunities to learn. Tech Ladies is a proud member of the UN's Equal Pay International Coalition.
- Topics: Community, Job Board, Networking
Technovation is a global tech education nonprofit organization that empowers girls and families to become leaders, creators, and problem-solvers. They offer two programs - Technovation Girls and Technovation Families - which bring kids and adults together to solve big problems in their communities.
- Topics: Education, Mentorship
Techtonica partners with tech companies to provide free tech training, laptops, living stipends, and job placement to women and non-binary adults in need in the San Francisco Bay Area. Their full-time software engineering training program is a free, virtual, year-long program that provides the opportunity for women and non-binary adults with low incomes to learn technical skills and start their first job in tech.
- Topics: Education, Mentorship, Volunteer
TechWomen is an initiative of the U.S. Department of State's Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs (ECA). Their mission is to empower, connect, and support the next generation of women leaders in STEM (science, technology, engineering, and mathematics).
- Topics: Education, Mentorship, STEM
Women in Tech Allies is a group that advocates for diversity in technology through networking, tech talks, mentorship, and more. They support women who are currently in tech and those transitioning into the new field from other backgrounds.
- Topics: Coding Resources, Events, Mentorship, Networking
A list of women tech speakers, organizers, and mentors with various backgrounds and locations.
- Topics: Mentorship, Networking
Women Who Code inspires women to excel in technology careers by offering networking events, blogs, and a job board.
- Topics: Coding Resources, Events, Job Board, Mentorship, Networking