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.
Source: http://www.nytimes.com/2016/01/10/upshot/when-teamwork-doesnt-work-for-women.html Quote: “women get essentially zero credit for the collaborative work with men. … It is only when women write with other women that they are given full credit.”
Source: www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-35092509
QMUL’s Director of Human Resources, Margaret Ayers, outlines the institution’s commitment to equality and diversity at www.ecu.ac.uk/blogs/subscriber-stories-queen-mary-university-of-london.
Source: www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2015/nov/19/women-start-out-as-ambitious-as-men-but-it-erodes-over-time-says-researcher Quotes: “Many women are just as ambitious as men when they begin their careers, but become so wearied by fighting against multiple structural and experiential barriers to their success that this ambition often wanes. This is one of the
BBC starts its 2015 One Hundred Women season, which runs from 18 Nov through 2 Dec 2015. More at: www.bbc.com/news/world-24371433
BBC names ‘one hundred of the most inspirational women across the world in 2015’. The list includes Hilary Swank, Oscar-winning actress, Alek Wek, Sudanese supermodel, nurses in the front line, young female film-makers, leaders in science, politics, education, and the