{"id":13401,"date":"2015-02-05T15:00:16","date_gmt":"2015-02-05T23:00:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/?p=13401"},"modified":"2017-06-04T12:02:35","modified_gmt":"2017-06-04T19:02:35","slug":"women-in-tech-this-platform-will-match-you-to-peer-mentors-tinder-style","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2015\/02\/women-in-tech-this-platform-will-match-you-to-peer-mentors-tinder-style","title":{"rendered":"Women In Tech: This Platform Will Match You To Peer Mentors, Tinder-Style"},"content":{"rendered":"<h4 class=\"author-name\"><a class=\"navigate\" href=\"http:\/\/www.fastcoexist.com\/user\/ariel-schwartz\">Ariel Schwartz<\/a> \u2014 FastCo<\/h4>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>No matter how many coding initiatives for women and diversity programs are launched, the inescapable fact remains: The tech industry is overloaded with men, especially in the top ranks. It\u2019s an vicious cycle. The more men are hired for top jobs, the more they tend to hire men themselves.<\/p>\n<p>Entrepreneurs Eileen Carey and <a class=\"profile\" href=\"http:\/\/www.fastcompany.com\/person\/lauren-mosenthal\">Lauren Mosenthal<\/a> believe the best path to gender equality is peer mentorship\u2014that is, mentorship from people at your same skill and career level. So they created <a href=\"https:\/\/www.glassbreakers.co\/\" target=\"_blank\">Glassbreakers<\/a>, an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fastcoexist.com\/explore\/online-platform\" target=\"_blank\" data-event-category=\"recirculation\" data-event-label=\"Clicked: explore\" data-event-action=\"Autolink\">online platform<\/a> that matches women in tech (product managers, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fastcoexist.com\/explore\/software-engineers\" target=\"_blank\" data-event-category=\"recirculation\" data-event-label=\"Clicked: explore\" data-event-action=\"Autolink\">software engineers<\/a>, data scientists, and so on) with peer mentors. It\u2019s a little like <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fastcoexist.com\/explore\/online-dating\" target=\"_blank\" data-event-category=\"recirculation\" data-event-label=\"Clicked: explore\" data-event-action=\"Autolink\">online dating<\/a> for mentors.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.fastcoexist.com\/3041529\/change-generation\/women-in-tech-this-platform-will-match-you-to-peer-mentors-tinder-style\" target=\"_blank\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ariel Schwartz \u2014 FastCo No matter how many coding initiatives for women and diversity programs are launched, the inescapable fact remains: The tech industry is overloaded with men, especially in the top ranks. It\u2019s an vicious cycle. The more men are hired for top jobs, the more they tend to hire men themselves. Entrepreneurs Eileen [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":76,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13401","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13401","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/76"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13401"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13401\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":64838,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13401\/revisions\/64838"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13401"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13401"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13401"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}