Quotes “Join us as we celebrate International Women’s Day by exploring the history of women writing about science.” “How did early women scientists use writing in order to further their careers? In which ways were they limited by their gender?
Source: www.theguardian.com/technology/2016/feb/12/women-considered-better-coders-hide-gender-github Reference: J. Terrell1, A. Kofink, J. Middleton, C. Rainear, E. Murphy-Hill, C. Parnin (2016). “Gender bias in open source: Pull request acceptance of women versus men.” PeerJ PrePrints 4:e1733v1 https://doi.org/10.7287/peerj.preprints.1733v1 Quote: The researchers looked at approximately 3m pull
The IEEE Women in Engineering International Leadership Conference will take place 23-24 May 2016 in San Jose, California. Program and speaker information online at ieee-wie-ilc.org.
From the ACM-W Europe February 2016 Newsletter womENcourage 2016, the 3rd ACM-W Europe Celebration of Women in Computing, will take place 12-13 September 2016 at Johannes Kepler University, in Linz Austria. Program now online at womencourage.acm.org
Source: www.phillyvoice.com/70-years-ago-six-philly-women-eniac-digital-computer-programmers Without any real training, they learned what it took to make ENIAC work – and made it a humming success. Their contributions were overlooked for decades. Read more in Meeri Kim’s article.