| Mass High Tech (MHT), an online publication that | | | | story in the Women to Watch section of MHT. Jill |
| follows the most recent technology industry news, | | | | Becker's accomplishments as one of many women in |
| launched a feature column that spotlights females | | | | the business technology industry starts with her |
| that have accomplished noteworthy achievements in | | | | interest in high tech research; this ingenuity coupled |
| the business technology industry. This feature, titled | | | | with her entrepreneurial drive led her to realize the |
| Women to Watch, accepts nominations for | | | | demand for nanometer-scale thin films on behalf of |
| innovative female business and technology leaders in | | | | high tech industry researchers and corporations, as a |
| fields such as telecom, software, hardware, | | | | means to cost effectively and efficiently complete |
| advanced energy, electronics, medical devices, IT, | | | | their work. She built her business from scratch, |
| nano, robotics, and networks and communications. | | | | literally constructing her first product with her own |
| MHT's Women to Watch is a celebration of women's | | | | two hands. |
| achievements that decades ago were primarily | | | | One of her most laudable assets as a female |
| male-dominated industries; it honors women in | | | | innovator in the technology industry is her knowledge |
| business technology as innovators in their field and as | | | | of the field coupled with her capacity as a |
| multitalented role models to future generations of | | | | entrepreneur and business woman to not only |
| technology and science oriented women and girls. | | | | develop a product but to market it successfully |
| Women up for nomination are professionals in the | | | | based on her existing knowledge of science |
| tech industry in the Northeast; additional criteria to be | | | | technologies. Moreover, the article applauds Becker's |
| eligible for nomination includes having a degree in | | | | pursuit of her entrepreneurial high tech business |
| engineering or science, and at least five years of | | | | career while simultaneously managing the challenges |
| managerial or technical experience in science and | | | | of motherhood. While the norm for women in |
| business technology related field. From a business | | | | business is to put their careers on hold during |
| perspective, these Women to Watch must exhibit | | | | pregnancy, her tenacity as a professional is all the |
| outstanding leadership in successfully heading up | | | | more noteworthy because her responsibilities as a |
| campaigns for innovative new technologies, as well as | | | | mother only fueled her high tech entrepreneurial |
| demonstrating other classically valued business | | | | ambitions; her refusal to choose between her |
| management skills such as creative problem solving | | | | maternal life and business life makes her a |
| and the capacity to make consistently savvy | | | | progressive role model for successful business |
| business enterprise decisions. | | | | oriented women both in and outside of the high tech |
| Most recently, high tech female business | | | | business realm. |
| entrepreneur Jill Becker was honored as a feature | | | | |