WomenRise Platform: Empowering Underrepresented Groups in Tech

Inspiration 💡

While analyzing diversity reports from major tech companies, I noticed a consistent pattern: women and underrepresented groups face systemic barriers in accessing resources. WomenRise addresses three key problems:

  1. Fragmented Resources (Average 6.2 sources needed for complete career info)
  2. Mentorship Gap (Only 23% of women in tech have industry mentors)
  3. Network Effects (Weak ties account for 85% of career opportunities)

What It Does 🚀

WomenRise is a full-stack platform that provides:

  • AI-curated resources using cosine similarity matching
  • Smart mentorship pairing with compatibility scoring
  • Real-time community forums with PostgreSQL notifications
  • Opportunity aggregator with automated tagging
graph LR
    A[React Frontend] -->|TanStack Query| B[Node.js API]
    B -->|Drizzle ORM| C[(PostgreSQL)]
    C --> D[Neon Serverless]
    A --> E[Replit Auth]
    B --> F[Redis Cache]
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