Stats about Women in Tech
What percentage of women work in engineer or computer science related fields?
A) 25% B) 50% C) 60% D) 70%
25% (or less!)
Who was the first programmer in history
A) Barbara Streisand
B) Ada Lovelace
C) Carol Shaw
D) Margot Robbie
B) Ada Lovelace
A pioneer in stop-motion animation, Charlotte Reiniger’s career in the animation and filmmaking industry has spanned nearly 60 years. In that time, she has created and directed at least 70 successful silhouette animation films that cemented her status as an animator not to be messed with.
Which Disney animated film is she credited with animating?
A) Snow White and the Seven Dwarves
B) Cinderella
C) Mulan
D) Pocahontas
B) Cinderella
In 1947, Dr. Maria Telkes invented which type of energy device?
A) Oil Rig
B) Windmill
C) Solar Panel
D) Water Wheel
C) Solar Panel
How much less did female tech CEOs get paid than men tech CEOs?
A) 12K less
B) 15K less
C) 18k less
D) 20k less
D) 20K less (133K vs 153K)
Which tech company has the fastest growing number of women in its workplace?
A) Microsoft
B) Oracle
C) Apple
D) IBM
C) Apple: The number of female employees worldwide has grown over 70%, with an 85% increase in leadership
Grace Hopper was a lady who is credited with creating the first programming language for computers. She also served in a branch of our military. Which branch did she serve in?
A) Air Force
B) Army
C) Navy
D) National Guard
C) Navy
Lillian Friedman Astor is known as the first female studio animator, having worked at Disney’s rival studio, Fleischer Brothers Studio.
She started out as an inker, inking their animated cartoons. Animator James “Shamus” Culhane then took her under his wing, and Astor was promoted to his assistant, where she was tasked to create the intermediate drawings between two images. This task would then give audiences the impression of a smooth movement.
Which character is she credited with creating?
A) Belle
B) Jasmine from Aladdin
C) Betty Boop
D) Olive Oyl
C) Betty Boop
Florence Papart invented which revolutionary appliance in 1912?
A) Modern Refridgerator
B) Dishwasher
C) Electric Stove
D) Trash Compactor
A) Refridgerator!
What percentage of the tech work force are women?
A) 20%
B) 33%
C) 40%
D) 50%
B) 33%
What percent of tech startups are from women?
A) 15%
B) 20%
C) 25%
D) 30%
B) 20%
Edith Clarke was the first female _____ engineer. She was also the first female professor of ______ engineering at the University of Texas at Austin. Born to a family of nine children, she was orphaned at the age of 12. She used her inheritance to fund her college education and became a graduate in mathematics. She taught at a private school before joining AT&T.
A) Mechanical
B) Aerospace
C) Electrical
D) Chemical
C) Electrical
In 1994, Disney offered the position of a supervising animator to a woman for the first time. Meet Ellen Woodbury. When she first stepped into the animation industry during the early 80s, the world of animation appeared a bit lackluster, with most animation studios sticking to solely simple children’s series.
Which of the following is she responsible for animating?
A) Abu from Aladdin
B) Pegasus from Hercules
C) Zazu from Lion King
D) All of the above!
D) YES! ALL OF THEM!
Hedy Lamarr was known as a famous actress, but also an inventor. She created a communication system during World War 2 that laid the groundwork for....
A) Radio Signals
B) Morse Code
C) Wifi
D) Telephone
C) Wifi
What ratio of women in tech faced verbal abuse in the work place?
A) 1 out of every 4
B) 1 out of every 5
C) 1 out of every 9
D) 1 out of every 10
B) 1 out of every 5
How much less do women in tech get paid compared to men WITH THE SAME JOB?
A) 12%
B) 13%
C) 15%
D) 16%
D) 16%
Carol Shaw is believed to be the first female video game designer. A graduate in electrical engineering from the University of California, Berkeley, she began her career at _____. She created some of the most popular games for ______ such as Polo, 3-D Tic-Tac-Toe, and River Raid.
A) Atari
B) Nintendo
C) Sega
D) Microsoft
A) Atari
Yang has been considered one of the most sought-after women in animation. Her passion for drawing and arts has been there since she was a young girl in South Korea, but she initially wanted to work as a comic book artist.
This female animator enrolled in the California Institute of the Arts, better known as CalArts, after graduating from Hongik University. There, she started to become exposed to filmmaking and animation –– The start of what would be her future in animation.
Which cartoon is she a major animator for?
A) Family Guy
B) Simpsons
C) Spongebob
D) Looney Tunes
A) Family Guy
In 1919, Alice Parker created the modern system of _________
A) Central Heating
B) Plumbing
C) Air Conditioning
D) Electricity
A) Central Heating
in 1987, Brenda Chapman was the only animator working at Disney. 25 years later, she created which Pixar movie?
A) Finding Dory
B) Cars
C) Brave
D) Coco
C) Brave
Which of these public colleges has the highest rate of women who graduate from a tech department?
A) UCLA
B) UC Berkeley
C) University of Virginia
D) University of North Carolina
C) University of Virginia
Parisa Tabriz turned her passion for cyber security into her profession. Parisa was drawn to website security during her college days, after her own website was hacked. She researched extensively on network security and privacy enhancing technology during her graduation. She was soon selected for summer internship at a tech company that later turned into a full-time role. She now leads Internet Security for ________ world wide!
A) Safari
B) Microsoft Edge
C) Google Chrome
D) Mozilla Firefox
C) Google Chrome
Emily Dean’s animation career began at the Australian Film Radio School (AFTRS) where she graduated and earned a certificate in Animation Directing. From there, she continued to pursue animation at CalArts and then began training at the Pixar Studios Story Department.
If there’s one way you can describe Emily Dean, it’s passionate. From the age 12, this female animator was already playing around with animation. And because of how dedicated she was to the craft, she pretty soon found herself working with major studios, like Warner Bros and Sony Pictures Animation.
What movie is she credited for animating?
A) Moana
B) Spiderman: Into the Spider-Verse
C) The Lego Movie
D) Inside Out
C) The Lego Movie
Josephine Cochran patented which appliance in 1886?
A) Trash Compactor
B) Fridge
C) Stove
D) Dishwasher
D) Dishwasher
Which of the following table top appliances was made by a woman in 1843?
A) Blender
B) Ice Cream Maker
C) Food Processor
D) Toaster
B) Ice Cream Maker
Which of these private colleges has the highest rate of women who graduate from a tech department?
A) Duke University
B) Princeton University
C) Yale University
D) Harvard University
B) Princeton University
Joan Clark is a cryptanalyst and numismatist who was recruited to the Government Code and Cypher School and then stationed to work at Bletchley Park in the section known as Hut 8. She was the only female practitioner of Banburismus which was a new cryptanalytic process developed by Alan Turing.
Clark was best known as a code-breaker at her station during ________ and played an important role in the Enigma project. Where she decrypted the Germany’s secret communications.
A) World War 1
B) World War 2
C) Korean War
D) Vietnam War
B) World War 2
A rising star in the animation industry, Lindsey Olivares took up Computer Animation at Ringling College of Art and Design and began working at DreamWorks Animation in 2009. There, she worked under the visual development team of “__________” as a form of training.
Olivares had the chance to witness the animated film’s early development to the end of its production. This made her grasp the value of animation production and understand its ins and outs.
A) Madagascar
B) Zootopia
C) Osmosis Jones
D) Robots
A) Madagascar
In 1969, Marie Van Brittan Brown created the ____________
A) Security Camera
B) Sprinkler System
C) Home Security System
D) Fire Alarm
C) Home Security System
Katherine Johnson was a human computer who worked for NACA. She was famously portrayed in which movie?
A) Hidden Figures
B) The Color Purple
C) The Hobbit
D) The Outsiders
What percent of women in tech are considered women of color?
A) 23%
B) 52%
C) 56%
D) 65%
C) 56%
Safra Catz immigrated to the U.S. from Israel at age 6. She earned a bachelor's degree from the University of Pennsylvania's Wharton School and her Juris Doctor from Penn Law.
Catz was a banker at Donaldson, Lufkin & Jenrette, working her way through the ranks to become the managing director, then senior vice president of the firm. In 1999, Catz joined ______ as its senior vice president. She joined the company's board of directors in 2001 and was named president in 2004. She is now the CEO.
A) Microsoft
B) Oracle
C) Apple
D) IBM
B) Oracle
Despite initially being rejected by Pixar Studios, Domee Shi has now made history as the first woman to direct a Pixar short and a solo feature there throughout the studio’s 36-year history.
Ever since she was young, Shi wanted nothing more than to become an artist, posting her works on DeviantArt. She then enrolled in Sheridan College, which helped her make her way into the animation industry. For Shi, it was her passion and determination that catapulted her to the top.
Which Pixar film is she credited with animating?
A) Inside Out
B) Elemental
C) Turning Red
D) The Good Dinosaur
C) Turning Red
Evelyn Berezin invented the first __________ in 1971
A) Word Processor
B) Slideshow creator
C) Digital Spreadsheet
D) Form Maker
A) Word Processor