Women’s Diversity
Although tech has a smaller gender pay gap than most other fields, the gap still exists. How many cents do women make for every dollar of their tech male counterparts?
What is 93 cents?
Who is known as the world’s first computer programmer?
Who is Ada Lovelace?
This female founded dating app IPO-d at a whopping $13 billion.
What is Bumble?
Steve Jobs, Steve Wozniak, and Ronald Wayne founded what company in 1976?
What is Apple Computer, Inc?
What is BlackRock’s tech platform that unifies the investment management process?
What is Aladdin?
What percent of tech companies, to the nearest 5%, have established pay equity policies in the workplace?
What is 75%?
Taraji P. Henson played the role of an African American NASA mathematician on the Apollo 11 mission whose calculations put the first humans on the moon in the movie Hidden Figures. What was the name of her character?
Who is Katherine Johnson?
This smartphone app was founded by a father and son duo to promote incremental and passive investing.
What is Acorns?
This is the name for a computer virus which replicates itself and uses up all a computer’s processing space.
What is a Worm?
Every year, BlackRock hosts a 2-day Hackathon where technologists and citizen developers alike come together to let their creativity flow as they hack together an award-winning project. What was the name of the team that won last year’s Hackathon?
What is SmartSensei?
To the nearest 5%, what is the representation of women in the workforce of tech companies with 10k+ employees?
What is 25%?
Which female naval officer is known for creating the first computer compiler in 1952?
Who is Grace Hopper?
Marissa Mayer was Google's first female engineer and 20th employee. Serving as CEO of Yahoo between 2012-2017. In her early days as CEO, she ended this popular employee benefit to increase productivity.
What is remote work?
What does ‘GPU’ stand for in computing?
What is Graphics Processing Unit?
This is the title of the firm’s cohort in recognition of individuals with a superb record of technological experience.
What is BlackRock Tech Fellows?
How many black women are Fortune 500 CEOs?
What is 2?
Who was the leading 19th century activist that spearheaded the American Asylum Movement that changed the way the medical field handles the welfare of the mentally ill?
Who is Dorthea Dix?
Stepping down as Chief Operating officer of Meta platforms in 2022, she set off a movement to raise female voices in the workplace in 2013 with the release of her first book, Lean In: Women, Work, and the Will to Lead.
Who is Sheryl Sandberg?
This computer and printer company, sometimes better known by its two-letter acronym, was founded in Palo Alto, CA in 1939.
What is Hewlett-Packard (HP)?
What is the official name of our current tech strategy that prepares BlackRock and our technology business for the future?
What is tech2025?
As of 2023, how many female identifying CEOs are there in the Fortune 500?
What is 53?
Who is known as “the First Lady of Physics” after her work on the top-secret Manhattan Project where her Cobalt-60 experiment contested the law of conservation?
Who is Dr. Chien-Shiung Wu ?
According to Crunchbase data, global venture funding to female-founded companies fell significantly in 2020. As the highest percentage in the country, this was New York’s percent of startups with at least one female creator.
What is 21%?
This was the first successful high-level programming language.
What is Fortran?
What does Aladdin stand for?
What is Asset, Liability, Debt and Derivative Investment Network?