Tech execs: It's a good time to be a woman in tech (live blog)
On CES panel, three tech leaders--Google's Marissa Mayer, Flickr founder Catarina Fake, and Padmasree Warrior of Cisco--talk about the issues women face in a field dominated by men.
What's it like to be a top manager or engineer in Silicon Valley and a woman? Google's Marissa Mayer, Flickr founder Catarina Fake, and Padmasree Warrior of Cisco Systems talked about that and more today at the CNET Women in Tech panel.
The three agreed that progress has been made, but that there's still a long way to go to get more women into the technology field.
Mayer said she believes we need to get more people interested in technology overall--men and women. Warrior said we need to find ways to keep women in the workforce and that we need more role models. Among Fake's advice was that women should set their sights higher and take promotions and other opportunities.
The panel was hosted by CNET TV personality Molly Wood and Lindsey Turrentine, editor in chief of CNET Reviews, on the CNET stage at the Las Vegas Convention Center's South Hall.
We used ScribbleLive to live-blog the press conference, so if you missed it, you can scroll through it in the embedded component below. That will give you all the live updates along with commentary from our readers and CNET reporters.