Researchers are only starting to consider how sexual harassment keeps women down. “I can’t help but wonder if this has been the elephant in the room all along,” said labor economist Laura Sherbin, who studies the lack of women at the top as co-president at the Center for Talent Innovation, a think tank and consultancy that works on diversity issues. It’s not hard to find examples of how harassment disrupts women’s careers. Plenty of women have left who could have one day led.

Jade Le Maitre, CTO & Co-Founder At Hease Robotics: “As engineers, we have the ability to build the future we want.” It’s been eight years since Le Maitre graduated from the EPF School of Engineering in Sceaux (first founded in 1925 as a women-only institute by engineer Marie-Louise Paris who marked the lack of women she encountered in her own studies).

On the second Tuesday of October, we celebrate Ada Lovelace Day in honour of the woman who holds the incredible position of being the first computer programmer. Despite being born in 1815 and tragically dying at age 36, she wrote the first algorithm intended to be carried out by a machine.

Twitch isn’t just home to elite gamers. On one channel called ClimateFortnite launched by Katharine Hayhoe, a scientist at Texas Tech University, climate scientists are discussing issues of global warming while playing Fortnite, hoping that Twitch’s massive reach will get their message in front of more eyeballs.

Female superheroes help boost self-confidence in young girls watching their adventures.  One of the findings from a new study shows that girls want more female role models who are both relatable and strong. Bring on more Captain Marvel and female Time Lords.

Women, compared to men, are rarely depicted in statues. When you remove fictional women like Alice in Wonderland from those numbers, it gets even worse. That’s why San Francisco just passed an ordinance requiring 30% of of public art to depict nonfictional women. The initiative’s first new statue will be of Maya Angelou, a longtime SF resident.

The Tech Workers Coalition, which advocates for giving employees a say in technology company decisions, said in a statement that Google’s decision to withdraw from the cloud competition stemmed from “sustained” pressure from tech workers who “have significant power, and are increasingly willing to use it.”

Jodie Whittaker’s British premiere as the Doctor shattered the show’s record for viewers of an episode when it pulled in 8.2 million of them on BBC One. The show airs on BBC America on Sunday nights.

Laura Nolan, a software engineer in Ireland, left Google in June over the company’s involvement in Project Maven, an effort to build artificial intelligence for the Department of Defense.

Beginning next year, California’s corporate board rooms will be required to take on a different look. Landmark legislation will require all publicly traded companies with headquarters in California to have at least one woman on their board of directors by the end of 2019. The minimum requisite will increase to two by the end of 2021.