Source: www.washingtonpost.com/news/on-leadership/wp/2015/10/21/nurses-fathers-teachers-mothers-why-do-we-devalue-someone-the-minute-they-care-for-others Quotes: “Yes, we have too few women at the top, but we also have far too many women at the bottom. … What’s really going on here is we are discriminating against people who have to care for others
Telegraph: Ada Lovelace Day: Where are the women in science? Right here … My top 10 female scientists
Source: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/women/womens-life/10378299/Ada-Lovelace-Day-Where-are-the-women-in-science-Right-here-…-My-top-10-female-scientists.html Read about: Jean Golding, Jocelyn Bell Burnell, Athene Donald, Sophie Scott, Helen Czerski, Helen Sharman, Angela Attwood, Barbara Sahakian, Dorothy Hodgkin, Elizabeth Blackwell.
Guardian: On Ada Lovelace Day, here are seven other pioneering women in tech
Source: http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2015/oct/13/ada-lovelace-day-computer-programmer-female-tech-pioneers Read about Sheryl Sandberg (COO at Facebook), Joan Clarke (Bletchley Park code breaker), Radia Perlman (inventor of the spanning-tree-protocol), Hedy Lamarr (Hollywood actress and inventor of radio frequency-hopping), Zoe Quinn (developer of Depression Quest), Mitchell Baker (executive chairwoman
The Conversation: Ada Lovelace and the role models who guide women towards a life less ordinary
Source: https://theconversation.com/ada-lovelace-and-the-role-models-who-guide-women-towards-a-life-less-ordinary-48850 Quote: “Lovelace may have been a computing pioneer, but the percentage of women studying computer science has plummeted since 1984 due to a lack of sense of belonging. This feeling, even more acute for women who veer off
WashingtonPost: Famous quotes, the way a woman would have to say them during a meeting
Source: www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/compost/wp/2015/10/13/jennifer-lawrence-has-a-point-famous-quotes-the-way-a-woman-would-have-to-say-them-during-a-meeting Alexandra Petri takes the liberty of “translating some famous sentences into the phrases a woman would have to use to say them during a meeting not to be perceived as angry, threatening or (gasp!) bitchy.”
DailyMail: Male engineering student becomes online sensation after writing a letter to his female classmates about why they aren’t equal to men
Male engineering student becomes online sensation after writing a letter to his female classmates about why they aren’t equal to men (because they’ve had to work HARDER while dealing with sexism) • Jared Mauldin, a 34-year-old senior at Eastern Washington
NYTimes: What Really Keeps Women Out of Tech
Source: www.nytimes.com/2015/10/11/opinion/sunday/what-really-keeps-women-out-of-tech.html Quotes: “The percentage of women studying computer science actually has fallen since the 1980s. Dr. Cheryan theorizes that this decline might be partly attributable to the rise of pop-culture portrayals of scientists …” “… research shows that young