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.
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at 11:45AM 10/28/10 garyroome said:
“highlighting technical and scientific women both historical and current” – I thought a great example of this is Ornella Barra, you usually don’t see a pharmacist as one of the top 10 global leaders for women. I think more should be done to celebrate our great leaders across the industry, showing people choosing their careers that the old fashioned view that women can’t hold senior roles in male dominated environments is something that has long past. http://money.cnn.com/galleries/2010/fortune/1009/gallery.most_powerful_women_global.fortune/9.html
at 10:05PM 11/05/10 Kyerin said:
I’ve pretty much just signed up to this site to say ‘Yay, go pharmacists!’ because I am one. That burst of frivolity aside, this site looks awesome and I will be sticking around.
I’m not sure about other countries but in Ireland where I’m from, pharmacy has quite a strong history of female participation at all levels. Having said that, it has been my personal experience that men stick to retail and women to hospital, so Ms. Barra is still an excellent role model.