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Sheryl Sandberg To Speak At Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing

David Cohen — Mon, 03 Jun 2013 16:21:46 +0000

The 2013 edition of the Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing will feature a special guest speaker: Facebook Chief Operating Officer Sheryl Sandberg.

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Facebook Responds To Ad Boycott, Vows To Work Harder To Prevent Hate Speech

Justin Lafferty — Tue, 28 May 2013 19:22:21 +0000

Facebook has come under fire recently, as several advertisers pulled their campaigns in light of pages promoting hate speech against women on the site. The company responded to this criticism Tuesday, saying that Facebook will start working harder to prevent those kinds of posts and pages from coming to light. Facebook will work with legal experts, as well as women’s rights groups, to better train the teams that deal with feedback on these issues, and it will open up the lines of communication with groups that have faced discrimination.

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Examining How Married Women Change (Or Keep) Their Last Names On Facebook

Justin Lafferty — Thu, 16 May 2013 15:12:24 +0000

Facebook recently wondered if younger married women were more apt to keep or change their last names after marriage (at least on Facebook). The company’s data science team found that women in their 20s were the most likely to keep their maiden names, while women in their 30s and 40s hyphenated their last names more often than others.

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Facebook Announces Two More Scholarships For Women

Justin Lafferty — Thu, 09 May 2013 13:38:54 +0000

Taking a lead from its chief operating officer, Sheryl Sandberg, Facebook is looking to give more opportunities to women in the tech industry. The company recently announced two new scholarships: the Facebook Grace Hopper Scholarship and the Facebook Moms in Tech Sponsorship.

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INFOGRAPHIC: Battle Of The Sexes On Facebook

Justin Lafferty — Tue, 07 May 2013 19:35:58 +0000

Sometimes, stereotypes hold true. At least on Facebook, anyway. Compass Labs, a Facebook Preferred Marketing Developer, compiled an interesting infographic showing how the pages liked by men and women on Facebook show that guys tend to like cars, while ladies tend to like retail pages.

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Visualizing Facebook’s Social Graph

Justin Lafferty — Mon, 29 Apr 2013 13:47:21 +0000

It’s probably not surprising that when Facebook users are 21, most of their friends are also in that same age bracket. It’s also not a shocker to say that men talk about sports on Facebook more than women. But how do trends change over time? Do 30-year-olds tend to talk about health more than new high-school graduates? A highly visual set of data from Wolfram Alpha brings Facebook’s social graph to life, showing how people connect and relate to each other on the social network.

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Facebook’s Mike Schroepfer, Jocelyn Goldfein Discuss Challenges Of Finding Female Engineers

David Cohen — Mon, 22 Apr 2013 13:06:30 +0000

Facebook Chief Technology Officer Mike Schroepfer and Director of Engineering Jocelyn Goldfein discussed the social network’s efforts to recruit female engineers and the challenges involved while speaking at the she++ conference at Stanford University this weekend.

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Sheryl Sandberg Talks ‘Lean In,’ Women In The Workplace At Introduction Of Her Book

David Cohen — Tue, 12 Mar 2013 15:18:04 +0000

“There are Facebook employees we’ve never met,” Chief Operating Officer Sheryl Sandberg said in response to a question about Yahoo’s recent announcement that it would eliminate telecommuting as an option for its employees, but that was one of the few times Sandberg discussed the social network during a fireside chat Monday evening with Time Deputy Managing Editor Nancy Gibbs to introduce her book that was released earlier that day, Lean In: Women, Work, and the Will to Lead.

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It’s Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg’s ‘Time’

David Cohen — Thu, 07 Mar 2013 12:36:03 +0000

The Sheryl Sandberg frenzy continues unabated, as Facebook’s chief operating officer is featured on the cover of the latest issue of Time, and she spoke with the magazine’s Belinda Luscombe over a three-day period for the cover story.

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University of California, San Francisco Chancellor Susan Desmond-Hellmann Elected To Facebook Board

David Cohen — Wed, 06 Mar 2013 18:00:11 +0000

Granted, it’s only one seat, but critics of Facebook’s board of directors bemoaning the lack of women, aside from Chief Operating Officer Sheryl Sandberg, will likely welcome the addition of University of California, San Francisco Chancellor Susan Desmond-Hellmann.

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Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg Announces Formation Of ‘Lean In’ Online Community

David Cohen — Wed, 06 Mar 2013 16:27:07 +0000

March has been a busy month for Facebook Chief Operating Officer Sheryl Sandberg, as her book, Lean In: Women, Work, and the Will to Lead, will be released Monday, but first, she announced the formation of the Lean In online community Wednesday in a post on the group’s Facebook page.

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President Barack Obama’s Inauguration Scores A 7.1 Out Of 10 On Facebook’s Talk Meter

David Cohen — Wed, 23 Jan 2013 10:17:56 +0000

Facebook offered more details on how its users interacted with Monday’s inauguration of President Barack Obama, revealing that the event scored a 7.1 out of 10 on its Talk Meter scale.

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Facebook Mines 2012 Election ‘I’m Voting’ Data

Jennifer Moire — Fri, 16 Nov 2012 17:23:27 +0000

Facebook’s Data Science team parsed the 9 million users they say clicked on the I’m Voting application, offering a glimpse into not just who was voting, but sharing, commenting, and liking across Facebook Nov. 6.

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‘Women’ Competes For Most Facebook Mentions Follows Bruising Presidential Debate

Jennifer Moire — Wed, 17 Oct 2012 14:58:58 +0000

While the phrase “binders full of women” took off on Facebook Tuesday night during the second presidential debate in Long Island, N.Y., there was another fight brewing on the social network over dueling search term mentions, with Romney, Obama, and women garnering the top three spots, according to data posted on the U.S. Politics on Facebook page.

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Mitt Romney’s ‘Binders Full Of Women’ Comment Buzzing On Facebook

Justin Lafferty — Wed, 17 Oct 2012 14:05:18 +0000

The debates between President Barack Obama and Republican challenger Mitt Romney have become increasingly popular on Facebook (just ask Big Bird). After Romney answered a question during Tuesday night’s debate regarding equality for women in the workplace, the phrase, “binders full of women,” was all over the social network, even spawning a page that already has nearly 300,000 likes.

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