posts tagged with brain drain
Wednesday Afternoon Links
posted by clara Jan 27, 2010 @ 5:01 PM • 3 comments
in barbie be counted brain drain clay shirky danah boyd dreamwidth feminism geek feminism links news role models stereotypes women 2.0
- danah boyd responds to Clay Shirky’s rant
- Geek Feminism commenters talk about what they’ve learned from feminism and how they’ve used the tools of feminism in their geek lives
- mamealoney posted here on Stemming recently about Computer Engineering Barbie; while we still think that’s a step in the right direction, Sociological Images points out that Barbie’s many careers have an “a woman can do anything, as long as she’s hot!” attitude
- A psychology study shows that worldwide, gender differences in math ability essentially disappear when other factors (like gender equity overall in a particular country) are controlled for
- Another study suggests that gender stereotypes keep women out of scientific disciplines, but that having more female role models in their departments might help
- A graphic from the National Center for Women and Information Technology explains the “brain drain” of qualified women out of IT and why this hurts everyone
- Radengineer posts about why women leave engineering (and I love her tagline — “Pushing the radical notion that engineers are women”!)
- LinuxPlanet talks about the advantages Dreamwidth had from encouraging diversity in their development team (they’re one of the few open-source projects with a majority-female dev team)
- Sarah Blow at Girly Geekdom analyzes a decade of news about women in technology
- Be Counted is a web app that aims to track the gender balance at technical conferences based on user-reported data
- Women 2.0 posts their female founder successes of 2009 — and maybe I’m a little biased because Stemming got a mention! :)
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