​"It's a boys club." You've heard it about almost every industry imaginable; it's always true. The tech world, though, is a special sort of sausage club. The global TED (Technology Entertainment and Design) conferences, held annually since 1990, aim to give a stage to ambitious social entrepreneurs with potentially world-changing ideas, all with a technological bent. Unfortunately, but not unpredictably, it skews male. Take, for instance, their tag page for "women"; it's underwhelming. But they have a solution! It's a conference just for women and it's this December in Washington, D.C. That's what women want, right? Something for themselves? It's called TEDWomen.

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