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Computer science now top major for women at Stanford University

October 9, 2015 admin advocates-say, dearth, help-alleviate, hoover, hoover-tower, hopeful-sign, most-popular, paris, people-gathered, stanford, stanford-university, Technology, the-technology, university

By Sarah McBride SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – Computer science has for the first time become the most popular major for female students at Stanford University, a hopeful sign for those trying to build up the thin ranks of women in the technology field. Based on preliminary declarations by upper-class students, about 214 women are majoring in computer science, accounting for about 30 percent of majors in that department, the California-based university told Reuters on Friday. If more women majored in technological fields like computer science, advocates say, that could help alleviate the dearth of women in engineering and related professions, where many practitioners draw on computer science backgrounds

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Facebook raises minimum pay for contractors to $15 per hour

May 14, 2015 publisher casual-dress, chief-operating, india, major-cultural, menlo-park, nokia, officer-sheryl, take-steady, the-companies, the-technology, wage, zenica

By Yasmeen Abutaleb NEW YORK (Reuters) – Facebook raised wages for its contract workers, such as cafeteria staff and janitors, to a minimum of $15 per hour amid rising tension over the wage gap between the technology sector's elite and the lower-paid workers. Contractors will also receive a minimum of 15 days of paid vacation days and a $4,000 new child benefit for parents who do not receive parental leave, Chief Operating Officer Sheryl Sandberg said in a Wednesday post on Facebook

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WellPoint email glitch puts colonoscopy test in the subject line

November 13, 2014 creative are-reflected, caroline-humer, international, launched-during, network, past, san, the-subject, the-technology, tokyo, york

By Caroline Humer and Christina Farr NEW YORK/SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – Some WellPoint Inc customers got a surprise in their inbox this week: emails meant to remind them to get a specific preventative screening such as a colonoscopy or mammogram mistakenly included personal and health information in the subject line. WellPoint declined to say how many customers received the emails or the cause of the technology issue.