by, for, and about women in science, technology, engineering, & math

Has anyone ever felt like the teacher doesn’t call on you because you’re a girl? I don’t act as aggressive as the other chemistry majors, who are guys. I don’t like competing with them, but I feel like that makes the teacher like them more.

It wouldn’t be like this at an all girls school.

• 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! :)