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The welfare application was on my kitchen table. It was filled out and signed, waiting for me to bring it to the people who would decide whether I’d be able to make rent next month or put food on the table. I hated looking at it. I didn’t want to be in this situation. I’d thought that when you start over, make a clean break, life was supposed to get better, right? But here I was, out of money and out of choices.
Why James Chartrand Wears Women's Underpants | Copyblogger
Finding Ada — Bringing women in technology to the fore
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Government 2.0 Expo Showcase: Women By the Numbers | Cheeky Fres
While I was traveling the last few days, a minor controversy seemed to flame up about a lack of women in some of the Gov 2.0 events being planned by Tim O’Reilly and associated crew. They’re welcome to comment below, but I see no reason to call out individual people and their various comments. Here, I want to personally comment on an event I’ve been involved with planning for Tim during the last few months, and how women have intersected with it in interesting ways.Liminal states :: Diversity and technology conferences, part 1:
We received 189 valid proposals for talks at Expo Showcase. A few people, men and women, submitted two proposals, but the vast majority submitted just one. Of these 189, only 41 (or 22% of the total) were from women, with 147 proposals submitted by men. I have no reason in particular to offer for this. Perhaps women would like to comment on this blog about why a two month open call for proposals for anyone with a good idea for a five minute talk about Government 2.0 was dominated by 78% men. – Mark Drapeau’s Government 2.0 Expo: Women by the Numbers
Why Are There So Few Female Computer Scientists
Women pursue education and careers in computer science far less frequently than men do. In 1990, only 13% of PhDs in computer science went to women, and only 7.8% of computer science professors were female. Additionally, the percentage of female computer science students appears to be increasing at only a slow rate or even decreasing. Apart from ethical concerns at women's lack of participation in computer science, the demographics of the country are such that the United States will not have enough engineers and scientists unless underrepresented groups increase their participation. This report examines the influences against a woman's pursuing a career in a technical field, particularly computer science.
LShireen Mitchell is an award winning technological woman of color, author, social entrepreneur, nonprofit leader, advocate and a social media strategist. As a self-proclaimed "geekette," Shireen has always embraced her inner techie. You could always catch her playing pong or "chatting" on her computer on the bulletin board systems (BBS) before we had the World Wide Web.
Program Committee: Gov 2.0 Expo 2010 - Co-produced by TechWeb &
CANDACE FLEMING’S résumé boasts a double major in industrial engineering and English from Stanford, an M.B.A. from , a management position at and experience as president of a small software company. But when she was raising money for Crimson Hexagon , a start-up company she co-founded in 2007, she recalls one venture capitalist telling her that it didn’t matter that she didn’t have business cards, because all they would say was “Mom.” Another potential backer invited her for a weekend yachting excursion by showing her a picture of himself on the boat — without clothes. When a third financier discovered that her husband was also a biking enthusiast, she says, he spent more time asking if riding affected her husband’s reproductive capabilities than he did focusing on her business plan.
