NCWIT Pacesetters

A short presentation describing the National Center for Women & Information Technology (NCWIT) Pacesetters program, in which institutions commit to radically increasing recruitment and retention of technical women over a two-year period.

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1. NCWIT Pacesetters! Lucy Sanders, NCWIT CEO! Moving the National Needle for Women and Computing! ! CE21 PI Meeting, January 2013
2. A Word About NCWIT!
3. The Facts! Women Leave: 39% of all private sector engineering jobs by mid-career 47% of all private sector science jobs by mid-career 56% of all private sector technology jobs by mid-career
4. Wishful Thinking Won’t Solve This!
5. Women’s Participation in U.S. Talent Pool: It’s a Systems Problem! + - # = Talent Pool!
6. Solution: Recruit from New Talent Pools, Increase Focus on Retention! - # +“New” = + Talent Pool
7. Drive Model Down to Individual Organizations for Action ! + - # + “New” =
8. What Gets Measured Gets Done!
9. Plan for a Long Haul, Not a Sprint!
10. Brainstorming with Others Accelerates Progress!
11. It Helps to Have the Boss on Board!
12. Don’t Reinvent the Wheel!
13. Join a National Cohort of Peers!
14. Form Implementation Teams Led by Executive Champions!
15. Quantify a “Net New Women” Goal!
16. Report Progress Towards Goal at Annual Roundtable Meetings!
17. Engage in Public Advocacy!
18. Pacesetters Pilot Cohort Beat Its Goal, Added 1,685 “Net New Women”!
19. 2013 Pacesetters Cohort!
20. lucinda.sanders@ncwit.org!