Re: Interesting article about women in science

Hi, Yes, Margarita, I agree. I haven't even finished reading the article yet, it's so long! It is US-centric, and blames the American culture as part of the problem, but unfortunately it's not that simple. I was trained as a physicist and I would be one of these French or Italian women wearing

Re: Interesting article about women in science

Indeed very interesting. Thank you for sharing! Angeliki On 7 Oct 2013 13:23, "Margarita Manterola" wrote: > Hi, > > The New York Times has published and interesting (and long) article > about the lack of women in Science: > > http://www.nytimes.com/2013/10/06/magazine/why-are-there-still-so-few

Re: Interesting article about women in science

> On Oct 7, 2013, at 4:23 AM, Margarita Manterola > wrote: > > Hi, > > The New York Times has published and interesting (and long) article > about the lack of women in Science: > http://www.nytimes.com/2013/10/06/magazine/why-are-there-still-so-few-women-in-science.html > > It focuses particu

Re: Interesting article about women in science

this is a good article, Thanks for sharing! On Mon, Oct 7, 2013 at 7:23 AM, Margarita Manterola < margamanter...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi, > > The New York Times has published and interesting (and long) article > about the lack of women in Science: > > http://www.nytimes.com/2013/10/06/magazine/

Interesting article about women in science

Hi, The New York Times has published and interesting (and long) article about the lack of women in Science: http://www.nytimes.com/2013/10/06/magazine/why-are-there-still-so-few-women-in-science.html It focuses particularly on maths and physics and it's a bit US-centric, but I still found it quit

An interesting site and interesting article

I found this article about how the "math is not for girls" prejudice is already present since second grade (in the US, the situation is different across countries): http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/03/110314091642.htm It cites a website called project implicit that has some interesting te

Re: Interesting article: Gender Dimensions of Floss Development

Hello, Thanks a lot on link for good article. I am man and I work a ot with women and to be honest I must say that I found very difficult to overcome one very disturbing phenomena. I am very much aware that such inbalance is strikingly frustrating for me as a men. ON teh other side, I have very

Interesting article: Gender Dimensions of Floss Development

Gender Dimensions of Floss Development The FLOSS ideal of equality, inclusivity and freeness is sadly let down by the gender imbalance of its participants, with women comprising just over 1 percent of FLOSS developers. Yuwei Lin analyses the causes of the gender digital divide and suggests a way t

Interesting article on research on women in IT

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2005/08/15/women_it_maths_mandatory/ The research in question seems to be a forthcoming book from MIT Press: Charles, Maria and Karen Bradley. “A Matter of Degrees: Female Underrepresentation in Computer Science Programs Cross-Nationally.” In Joanne McGrath Cohoon and

Interesting article

Here an interesting article by a major researcher in sexual differneces in reply to Lawrence Summers braindamaged comments last year: http://www.guardian.co.uk/life/feature/story/0,13026,1398875,00.html Interesting read. Rob -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of

Re: Interesting article

On Mon, 25 Oct 2004 14:32:15 -0400, Andres Salomon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: How about ecartis? http://www.ecartis.org/history.html I'm not sure who's maintaining it these days, but I recall dealing w/ Rachel and JT years I think it's still Rachel (and not to forget Trish Lynch), although th

Re: Interesting article

On Tue, 12 Oct 2004 18:38:07 -0400, Erinn Clark wrote: > I came across this article today on, of all places, Planet Perl. > > http://www.sdmagazine.com/documents/s=9411/sdm0411b/sdm0411b.html?temp=SCuteMYIzC "An increasing number of these architects are non-white, non-Anglophone and/or gay, but

Re: Interesting article

On Thu, Oct 14, 2004 at 04:31:17PM +0100, Helen Faulkner wrote: > Hanna M. Wallach wrote: > >>What a disappointment... The world is black and white, Free software > >>is doomed and male free software developers are the vermin of society, > >>asocial and weird ... Hmm, why should I take the rest of

Re: Interesting article

Hanna M. Wallach wrote: What a disappointment... The world is black and white, Free software is doomed and male free software developers are the vermin of society, asocial and weird ... Hmm, why should I take the rest of the article serious? I agree with your disappointment, Frank. However, my

Re: Interesting article

> What a disappointment... The world is black and white, Free software > is doomed and male free software developers are the vermin of society, > asocial and weird ... Hmm, why should I take the rest of the article > serious? I agree with your disappointment, Frank. However, my disappointment -- a

Re: Interesting article

On Tuesday 12 October 2004 3:38 pm, Erinn Clark wrote: > I came across this article today on, of all places, Planet Perl. > > http://www.sdmagazine.com/documents/s=9411/sdm0411b/sdm0411b.html?temp=SCuteMYIzC > > (Free registration required, I got busy/boss from bugmenot.com) > > I was surprised

Re: Interesting article

On Tue, Oct 12, 2004 at 06:38:07PM -0400, Erinn Clark wrote: > I came across this article today on, of all places, Planet Perl. What a disappointment... The world is black and white, Free software is doomed and male free software developers are the vermin of society, asocial and weird ... Hmm, why

Interesting article

I came across this article today on, of all places, Planet Perl. http://www.sdmagazine.com/documents/s=9411/sdm0411b/sdm0411b.html?temp=SCuteMYIzC (Free registration required, I got busy/boss from bugmenot.com) I was surprised to see our very own Jenn Vesperman and Helen Faulkner mentioned in it