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1-small strategies of top women in science (and other tuesday links)

posted by clara Jun 7, 2011 @ 5:58 PM • 0 comments

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  • In the New York Times, four top women scientists — a physicist, a neuroscientist, a geneticist, and a cryptographer — are interviewed about the challenges they face (both the general challenges of advanced research and the specific challenges they face as women and mothers) and the strategies they’ve used in rising to the top of their respective fields.
  • The DevChix blog has started a series of Q&As on its members, beginning with programmers Nola Stowe and aimee daniels.
  • BetaBeat profiles 25 women with prominent roles in the New York City tech scene — and it doesn’t just include “women near tech”, as in so many similar sets of profiles, but features several coders and engineers along with businesswomen and entrepreneurs.
  • A neat article at the Atlantic about Project Euler’s approach to teaching programming
  • Women in business blog The Glass Hammer posts about stereotype threat; a consensus is fast emerging that this phenomenon — as the article says, “the fear of proving a negative stereotype true actually causes someone to underperform” — is one of the biggest factors keeping women underrepresented in STEM (along with the vicious cycle it forms with the shortage of role models in these fields)
  • Under the Microscope has a piece about “STEMebrities” — female scientists, teachers, or fictional characters who provide geeky inspiration and serve as role models for young women and girls
  • Two awards from the Anita Borg Institute accepting applications:
  • Location-specific events in Los Angeles and Columbus:

1-small Oct. 27 Links!

posted by clara Oct 27, 2010 @ 5:59 PM • 2 comments

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  • Geek Feminism has started a new series, Wednesday Geek Woman, highlighting technical and scientific women both historical and current (it’s like Ada Lovelace Day every week!); today’s featured woman is biologist Rosalind Franklin.
  • The Anita Borg Institute also has a series of profiles, Senior Technical Women; this month’s is Nora Denzel, a vice president at Intuit.
  • There’s been a Twitter discussion about Silicon Alley Insider’s “New York’s Coolest People in Tech”. The conversation pretty much goes as per usual whenever a list comes out — someone points out that there’s an unrepresentatively small number of women on the list, and then a man involved in making the list complains that it’s because he couldn’t find any women or that they didn’t come to him asking to be included in the list. Sigh.
  • Meanwhile, this Field Guide to Female Entrepreneurs managed to find plenty of women involved in the New York tech scene!
  • Via the Systers mailing list, a cartoon drawn in honor of Ada Lovelace Day.
  • Under the Microscope shares six things to inspire women in science.
  • There’s still plenty of time to apply for Google’s Anita Borg Memorial Scholarship — which awards $10,000 each to qualified women who are full-time students in Computer Science or Engineering.

1-small end of september links

posted by clara Sep 30, 2010 @ 4:40 PM • 0 comments

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  • A She’s Geeky unconference is coming up at the end of October in New York City!
  • Via Leslie Hawthorn on Twitter, two guides for IRC for beginners! (If you don’t already know, IRC stands for Internet Relay Chat — it’s a simple chatroom technology that’s been around for a while. IRC channels are common communication methods for contributors of open-source projects and also often serve as forums where experienced users of programs or tools hang out ready to give technical help to new users. A lot of people new to IRC find it intimidating at first, but it ends up being pretty straightforward once you get used to it!)
  • Jezebel rounds up the 10 most patronizing technology ads for women. Ew. Advertisers often justify stuff like this by saying that most women don’t really understand or care about the detailed technical specs of their devices, but guess what? Neither do most men! But tech ads for men still focus on devices’ power or speed, rather than their ability to store recipes.
  • Tom Forrister writes about how after his gender transition to male, he finds that it’s a lot more common that he’ll be asked for technical help. I find stories like this fascinating — the differences people who gender transition experience in how they are treated before and after their transition, while still being essentially the same person with the same skills and interests, say a lot about how our society still makes so many assumptions based on gender or perceived gender (and not based on other qualities of the person). (Another telling example of stuff like this is the experience of Ben Barres — a scientist who, after his transition to male, started hearing comments like “Ben Barres gave a great seminar today, but then his work is much better than his sister’s.”)

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