美国新任CTO：谁将为科技业女性敞开大门？

    分享这些个人的故事，也是解决方案的一个重要部分。

    通过刻画出真正的日常经验，既包括艰难险阻，也包括潜在的出路，可以向我们展示出现实的无助，以及充满希望的前路。

    这些故事，尤其是每位女性面临的现实，都会深深地引发我们的同情，使我们更详细地理解女性所面临的挑战，激励我们所有人更深入地看待这些问题，并且改变自身。

    我们认为，未来有两个重要的机会：

    首先，是拥护和支持那些以力挺女权为己任的组织。比如像Astia、女性2.0（Women 2.0）、生命之音（Vital Voices）、全球妇女基金会（Global Fund for Women）和UP Global等组织，都在直接为让更多女性获得她们应得的工作机会而努力。我们既是其中某些组织的理事会成员，也非常有幸地亲眼见证了领导阶层的有力行动可以带来多么直接的成果。

    2013年6月，UP Global在旧金山召开了创业周末妇女版（Startup Weekend Women’s Edition ）活动，参与者85%是女性，创下了“创业周末”有史以来女性参与人数最高的一次纪录。许多人表示，她们一直想参加一次创业周末活动，一听说这次活动是专门为女性企业家举办的，她们立刻毫不犹豫地抓住了这次机会。UP Global还在谷歌创业支援团队（Google For Entrepreneurs）和黑石基金会（Blackstone Foundation）的支持下，发起了一个叫做“创业女性”（Startup Women）的项目，旨在提高女性对UP Global项目的参与度，并计划在今年帮助成立1500家由女性领导的创业公司。

    第二，在全球范围内，我们在所有工作中，都要注意提高女性的比例，以此作为开展所有工作的基础之一。我们发现玛诺斯加速器（Manos Accelerator）已经在这样做了。玛诺斯加速器是面向拉美创业家的一个科技加速器。他们有意识地确保同时扶持男性和女性创业家，因此他们扶持的最优秀的七个创业团队中，有五个团队都是由女性创业家领导的。谷歌创业支援团队也于今年推出了一个叫做#40Forward的全球项目，与40个合作伙伴一道，推进女性在40个创业社区所占的比例。可以说各个组织都使出了浑身解数，从简单地调整活动的时间，到推出以女性为重点的创业加速器等。这不仅仅是一个组织或一个社区的事，而是要全面转变我们的观念。

    如果男性与女性一道，共同思考解决方案，我们就会有巨大的潜力来解决世界上一些最棘手的挑战，同时有大量的机会来改善我们的社会、我们的国家，通过创业和“10倍的思考”来共同提升全球人类处境。它需要勇气，也需要我们挽起袖子，勇敢地冲出我们的“舒适区域”，突破传统的思维方式。

    美国著名女权主义者葛罗莉亚•斯坦能曾说过：“不要想让女人适应世界——想想如何改造世界来适合女人。”作为一个行业，我们才刚刚开始理解她的这个观点，同时我们也才刚刚开始理解我们应该如何变革自身、调整科技文化，才能更好地适应这么多新涌现的创新者。

    此时不做，更待何时？如非我等，舍我其谁？赶快行动吧！

    我们一直等待的人正是我们自己。

    玛莉•格鲁夫是谷歌全球创业拓展部主任，她领导谷歌创业支援团队以及谷歌的各种项目和合作项目，在全球100多个国家对创业活动和企业家进行支持。梅根•史密斯是美国新任命的首席技术官。她曾在谷歌公司任高管，并有创业和工程领域的背景。（财富中文网）

    译者：朴成奎

    Sharing these personal stories and so many more is a big part of the solution.

    Making these problems visible through real day-to-day experiences, both the hardship and examples of potential paths forward, show us the hopeless reality and the hopeful ways out.

    The stories, the realities that each woman faces, are a powerful way to elicit empathy, allow us to understand much more specifically the challenges, and encourage all of us to look deeper at these issues and evolve.

    We see two important opportunities for the future here:

    The first is championing and supporting organizations whose direct mission is to support women. Organizations like Astia, Women 2.0, Vital Voices, the Global Fund for Women, and UP Global are working directly to ensure more women have access to the opportunities they deserve. We both sit on the boards of some of these organizations and are fortunate to witness firsthand how tremendous leadership in action can lead to direct results.

    In June 2013, UP Global hosted the Startup Weekend Women’s Edition SF and, with 85% women, clocked in with the highest number of women ever at a startup weekend. Many shared how they had long considered participating in a startup weekend event, but once they heard that one was specifically for female entrepreneurs, they jumped at the opportunity and never looked back. UP Global is working on a new initiative with support from Google for Entrepreneurs and Blackstone Foundation called Startup Women, an effort to increase participation of women across UP Global’s programs and help 1,500 women-led startups launch this year.

    The second layer is thinking about increasing diversity as a thin underlay across all the work we do globally. We saw this with Manos Accelerator, a new tech accelerator for Latino startup founders; they made a conscious decision to ensure they filled their pipeline with both male and female founders, and subsequently their first class of startups featured five of the seven teams with a female founder. Google for Entrepreneurs launched the global #40Forward effort this year to increase representation of women in 40 startup communities with 40 partners. Organizations did everything from simply tweak the time of day of their events to launch women-focused accelerators. It’s not just about one organization or one community — the ideas is to shift the way we think about inclusion across the board.

    There is enormous potential to tackle the world’s toughest challenges with women and men working together on solutions, tremendous opportunity to improve our communities and our countries and together to elevate our global human condition through entrepreneurship and “10X thinking.” It requires courage, rolling up our sleeves, and moving outside of our comfort zone and our traditional ways of thinking.

    Gloria Steinem said, “Don’t think about making women fit the world — think about making the world fit women.” As an industry, we are just at the start of understanding this insight and how we might change and adapt our tech culture to better accommodate so many more innovators.

    If not now, when? If not us, who? Take action.

    We are the ones we’ve been waiting for.

    Mary Grove is Google’s director of global entrepreneurship outreach where she leads Google for Entrepreneurs, the company’s programs and partnerships to support start-ups and entrepreneurs in more than 100 countries around the world. Megan Smith is the newly named U.S. chief technology officer. She is a former Google executive with a background in entrepreneurship and engineering.