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 arts, 30 entrepreneurs under the age of 30, and inspiring women over the age of 80.
Source: www.bbc.com/news/world-34801473
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 … if you’re at the top and take time out to take care of others, you’re knocked off your leadership track.”
“Men wrote to me, including gay men, and said, “How dare you frame this as a woman’s issue?” They were right. They also said, “I am not any happier with my role as a mandated breadwinner than women used to be as the mandated caregiver. I want to be able to spend more time with my children.” So I really changed my views of what men want but don’t dare say.”
“To boil it down, my advice is break the mold. Do not accept the hierarchies you are given. Do not accept the assumptions about the workplace that you are given. Do not accept the ideas about male and female roles you are given.”
Read about: Jean Golding, Jocelyn Bell Burnell, Athene Donald, Sophie Scott, Helen Czerski, Helen Sharman, Angela Attwood, Barbara Sahakian, Dorothy Hodgkin, Elizabeth Blackwell.
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 of Mozilla Foundation), Lila Tretikov (executive director of Wikipedia Foundation).
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 the beaten track into more esoteric fields, can be countered by education and role models – something we desperately need more of if we are to capitalise on the Ada Lovelaces of today.”
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.”
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 University, wrote an inspiring letter to his female peers in the school’s newspaper
• The Montana native praised the women in his major for working tirelessly just to be taken seriously in the STEM field
• His piece has been shared thousands of times on social media since it was published on October 5
• Jared is autistic and suffers from Lupus and avascular necrosis of both hips
By EMILY JAMES FOR DAILYMAIL.COM
PUBLISHED: 16:18, 12 October 2015 | UPDATED: 18:34, 12 October 2015
Jared Mauldin’s letter:
Quote: “Speaking with the Today show about his piece, Jared said: ‘Really, when you look at this letter, I said nothing new. I didn’t say anything that another feminist writer hasn’t said before. The distinguishing factor happens to be that I am a man. That is a problem.'”
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 men tend not to major in English for the same reasons women don’t pick computer science: They compare their notions of who they are to their stereotypes of English majors and decide they won’t fit in.”
“… new research demonstrates, young women today still are avoiding technical disciplines because, like me, they are afraid they won’t fit in.”
“… strategies such as creating separate introductory classes for students with no programming experience and renaming courses (“Introduction to programming in Java” became “Creative approaches to problem solving in science and engineering using Python”) led to an increase in the percentage of computer science majors who are female …”
“Computer scientists and engineers are going to be designing the future that everyone inhabits. We need women and minorities to enjoy an ambient sense of belonging in those professions if the future they create is going to be one in which all of us feel at home.”
Researchers find reason to balance the executive team …
