Negotiation and the Gender Divide
“Women’s goals used to be to get into management, to get onto the boards of Fortune 500 companies, to become CEO… There is a new goal. The aim now is more radical and more abituous: it is to change the...
View Articledifferent kinds of ambition
A recent weekend was filled with T-ball, two playdates and a sleepover. A conversation about the emergence of casual gaming on mobile devices took place while climbing over big rocks at the breakwater....
View ArticleI’m not a feminist, but…
I appreciate the right to help choose my government representatives. I enjoy the option of wearing pants or shorts if I want. I’m pleased that I was allowed to learn to read and write. It can be very...
View ArticleDon’t Worry Your Pretty Little Head
Larry Summers, the president of Harvard, has incited some debate about whether innate gender differences contribute to why relatively few women become professional scientists or engineers. William...
View Articlewhy women aren’t interested in computer science
It is good to read about progress from some colleges in creating gender balance in computer science, since the overall trend has been a steady downward curve in the number of female cs grads. [see NYT...
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Nov 8: The Untold Story of the ENIAC Programmers
A must see event… Invisible Computers: The Untold Story of the ENIAC Programmers. Thursday, November 8, 2007 6pm Google Headquarters 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway Mountain View, CA 94043 This is a...
View Articlewomen talk about mentoring open source
I listened to a podcast interview with a number of women who are mentors in the google highly open participation contest (which offers prizes to 13-18 year olds who contribute to open source projects)....
View ArticleGender Diversity in Web Conferences
I was doing a little research for a friend and found some nice resources for women speakers. Jason Kottle collected some great stats about representation of women at web conferences. Every year or so,...
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declining number of women studying computer science
Randall Stross of the New York Times reports about the declining number of women in computer science. The article quotes from a new book “Beyond Barbie and Mortal Kombat: New Perspectives on Gender and...
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the decline of women in CS from 1940-1982
Jennifer Taylor provides fresh insight on the minority of women in computer science by looking at causes of The Decline of Women in Computer Science from 1940-1982. From the pioneering work of Ada...
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