We Shape Tech

We Shape Tech is a global platform for greater diversity and inclusion in technology and innovation

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Diversity matters. We promote a society that celebrates diversity, recognizes abilities and includes and promotes them for the benefit of all.

Change the system, not women.
Harvard Professor Iris Bohnet
Companies with female founders perform 63% better than those founded by men.
Study from First Round Capital
Diversity at the top of companies increases talent at the top because you pick the very best from two large ponds - versus the best and second best from one pond.
General Wisdom
Exposing highschool girls for one hour to a female role model in tech at the age of 14, increases her likelihood to enroll in a technical field by 30%.
Large field experiment with 19'000 high-school girls in France: “Can female role models reduce the gender gap in science? Evidence from classroom interventions in French high-schools”
Clementine Van Effenterre, postdoctoral fellow at Harvard Kennedy School
The following people are most likely to win pitches in the following stack rank:
(1) attractive men, (2) non-attractive men,
(3) non-attractive women, (4) attractive women.
Research "Investors prefer entrepreneurial ventures pitched by attractive men”,
Alison Wood Brooks, assistant professor Harvard Business School
Female software engineers with 6.5 years of experience self report as many skills as male software engineers with 5 years of experience.
Research by
Raviv Murciano-Goroff
Teams with 50-50 men-women generate 41% higher revenues than all-male or all-female teams.
“Diversity, Social Goods Provision, and Performance in the Firm” published in Journal of Economics and Management Strategy
Sarah Ellison and Wallace Mullin
Women only apply for a job if they meet 100% of the criteria. Men are satisfied with 50%. After all, they want to learn something on the job.
The Confidence Gap
We don't take companies public if they don't have at least one diverse board member.
From a CNBC Interview with
David Solomon, CEO Goldman Sachs
Girls who play team sports have a higher chance of obtaining a higher school degree and a job in a male-dominated industry.
The Confidence Gap
Leadership starts at the top and presence makes an impact.
Ursula Burns
former CEO Xerox and founder of Board Diversity Alliance
To attribute a victory to oneself and to get up again after losing are important basic requirements for success in the business world. Boys practice this with each other from childhood on.
The Confidence Gap
All people are born free and equal in dignity and in their rights.
Principle of equality of the UN Convention on Human Rights
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Vision

50-50 female/male ratio in the workforce of tech and innovation – within the companies that partner with us.

Mission

Enhance tech- and career-related knowledge sharing by learning from the shapers and doers, the courageous and the inspiring, the fun and the passionate.

Values

Contribute, not only consume
Keep an open mind
Life long learning is key
Be yourself, trustworthy and authentic
Stay active and dynamic, never settle

... it should be all about talent - not gender, not race, not money...

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Insights

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Network

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Jobs

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What the Press Says

Frauen und Männer haben das gleiche Potenzial

NZZ
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Ein Neugier, Diversität, HTML und CSS

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«Männer machen Apps für Männer – Das reicht nicht»

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WE SHAPE TECH Feiert die Frauen

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Frauen Power

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Den Tech-Frauen eine Bühne bieten

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Ein Abend zum Programmieren und für Diversität

horizont.net
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The women shaping tech in Switzerland

swissinfo.ch
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WE SHAPE TECH - Das neue Netzwerk für Frauen

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WE SHAPE TECH: striving for diversity in tech and innovation

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Roya Mahboob: Eine IT-Unternehmerin bietet den Taliban die Stirn

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Where are the women in Swiss tech?
(Podcast 14min)

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WE SHAPE TECH: “How to make sure our voices are heard”

zurich.impacthub.ch
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Soundbite: SwissCognitive – The Global AI Hub and We Shape Tech

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WE SHAPE TECH erfolgreich lanciert

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"Wir sind für Diversität in der Techszene"

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WE SHAPE TECH in Bern erfolgreich gestartet

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