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posted by clara Apr 5, 2010 @ 2:50 PM • 0 comments

Jennifer Hunt, a researcher at McGill, has crunched some numbers on women leaving engineering and finds that most of those who leave are dissatisfied with their pay and promotion opportunities, and that the more male-dominated the field in general, the higher the rate at which women leave it. The paper is behind a paywall/accessible to university subscribers; there’s also a writeup in Time and a discussion at the Freakonomics blog.

There are a few days left for students to apply to the Google Summer of Code; Geek Feminism has collected a few GSOC projects that are seeking interested women applicants, and added a post with advice about applying to the program (#1 point: APPLY if you’re at all interested, even if you think you’re not qualified!)

Leslie Hawthorn writes at Geek Feminism about getting inspired early in her tech career by hearing about other women’s stories of how they got started (and we would love if you’d post your own stories here at Stemming to inspire others!) — and her story brings up an awesome and important point to keep in mind when feeling like an impostor: no matter how new and inexperienced you are (or think you are) in your field, the people you admire in that field were also once just as new — maybe even not that long ago!

And just for fun, via Inkling: Solarbeat creates music based on the movement of the planets!