Jess Wade, a London physicist who's making sure women in science get the recognition they deserve. And she's doing it one Wikipedia article at a time. She challenged herself to write one entry every day this year. So far, she's written more than 280 -- each highlighting a woman or someone from another group underrepresented in science.
Jess Wade, a London physicist who's making sure women in science get the recognition they deserve. And she's doing it one Wikipedia article at a time. She challenged herself to write one entry every day this year. So far, she's written more than 280 -- each highlighting a woman or someone from another group underrepresented in science.
@Ken: Consider PINK for the S4 color! But TTYTT, I still favor the yellow/black scheme that silly Fluke put the kibosh on: https://www.sparkfun.com/news/1428
@Ken: Consider PINK for the S4 color! But TTYTT, I still favor the yellow/black scheme that silly Fluke put the kibosh on: https://www.sparkfun.com/news/1428
Could always go to a mustard/black or gold/black scheme. I saw both on some boats and they look very sharp.
The article by C.D. Mote Jr., Sheila E. Widnall and Ed Lazowska, begins with this..."The engineering community has been working for decades to increase the representation of women in universities and in the profession, but progress has been slow. In the United States, just 21 percent of engineering bachelor’s degrees go to women, and only 11 percent of practicing engineers are women. While the problem is complex, we must recognize that one significant factor is sexual harassment, which creates hostile education and work environments and pushes women out of the field."
This is the first time that I have looked at this thread and I confess to not having read much of it because it's too long but.....I have employed many Service Technicians over the years and the best was a lady. She came up through the ranks and made it her business to understand how and why things work. I would always send her on the under-warranty projects because she wouldn't blindly swap parts out, she would analyze and find the root cause. Calibrating the PID on a 100HP AC Vector-Drive can be pretty "exciting" but she could almost do it with her eyes shut....pretty cool.
However, I have made a curious observation about male vs female, over the past 20+ years; for a bit of fun, I learned a couple of "magic" card tricks and when I perform them for females, they are usually amazed and if they ask me to repeat, it's purely for the entertainment. Now males are a totally different story....they go nuts wanting to know "how?" and they ask me to repeat and repeat because they want to figure out how to do it....they offer money or to buy me a drink to spill the beans and they can become quite aggressive.
I taught a class in toy design at the Otis College of Art here in LA for many years. It was a builder's class, students built working mechanisms, soldered circuits, and yes, programmed BASIC Stamps! Parallax's Jim Carrey very generously donated many BS2 Homework boards to the cause, Bravo! In general, I found that the girls took the assignments more seriously than the boys, spent more time and often did a better job. Not trying to be sexist or promote stereotypes here, but IMO many girls felt a bit out of their element. As a result, they listened and "failed often and early" (pre-Google!) moreso than most boys, leaving room for experimentation & redesign.
And now that I'm the proud Papa of two bright & lovely daughters, I can truly confirm that girls just plain rock!
I don't mean to be sexist either but I resent that "Simple" statement. I analyse the sh..t out of everything!
It is how I self taught myself programming and mechanics! It is where I get new ideas or recycle old ones
for my own robots. In the last two years I decided to take up 3D printing and have a scratch built and two
commercially made printers. I did the scratch built first and learned a lot about 3D printing and all it's ins
and outs on my own with research, reading and trial and error. You can see some of my work since then
on Thingiverse. I also self taught myself how to use Openscad which was not an easy endeavor. I am 72
years old and staying young by "analyzing" lots of things!
At my NYLUG (New York Linux User Group) meetings, the regular monthlies, I see a good, no make that great amount of young ladies involved involved in the wonders of the operating system. And at the one that meets normally twice a month in the technological area of things, there's also a good number of young ladies involved.
POF (Point of Fact) that gathering is managed by myself, and an exceptional young lady, to whom, she thinks we're related, long story not suitable here. All in all the ideas that were espoused by society as much as a generation earlier, regarding women and technology are being demolished.
And the Little Bits company based here in NYC was indeed started by a remarkable one. although at a discussion launched by DIsney and the LFL subsidiary she was upstaged by R2D2.
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And this space is being sponsored by the society for creating more anarchy and for a freer society.
I'm sure Olga (Google's Doodle of the Day) would be leading the STEM charge if she were still with us. And Friday is International Women's Day... I'm sure Google will Doodle that too.
RE where are the females: I just noticed that my "cup stacking twins" video on Youtube has over a million views in just a few months. TEN THOUSAND times more than most of my tech videos. We need to steer those people toward electronics & robotics. Start with a blinking LED on each cup, and progress toward females programming robot arms to stack cups. Not exactly sure how, but IMO we're a few tweaks away from nabbing a whole new audience!
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Jess Wade, a London physicist who's making sure women in science get the recognition they deserve. And she's doing it one Wikipedia article at a time. She challenged herself to write one entry every day this year. So far, she's written more than 280 -- each highlighting a woman or someone from another group underrepresented in science.
Here she is - https://wtkr.com/2018/07/28/a-physicist-is-writing-one-wikipedia-entry-a-day-to-recognize-women-in-science/
https://www.hexbug.com/news/2018/08/01/girl-scouts-stem-pledge/
https://www.girlscouts.org/en/about-girl-scouts/girl-scouts-and-stem.html
@Ken: Consider PINK for the S4 color! But TTYTT, I still favor the yellow/black scheme that silly Fluke put the kibosh on: https://www.sparkfun.com/news/1428
Could always go to a mustard/black or gold/black scheme. I saw both on some boats and they look very sharp.
The article by C.D. Mote Jr., Sheila E. Widnall and Ed Lazowska, begins with this..."The engineering community has been working for decades to increase the representation of women in universities and in the profession, but progress has been slow. In the United States, just 21 percent of engineering bachelor’s degrees go to women, and only 11 percent of practicing engineers are women. While the problem is complex, we must recognize that one significant factor is sexual harassment, which creates hostile education and work environments and pushes women out of the field."
C.D. Mote Jr. is president of the National Academy of Engineering. Sheila E. Widnall, Institute Professor and professor of aeronautics and astronautics at MIT, and Ed Lazowska, Bill & Melinda Gates Chair in Computer Science & Engineering at the University of Washington, are two of the authors of the National Academies report Sexual Harassment of Women: Climate, Culture, and Consequences in Academic Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine.
However, I have made a curious observation about male vs female, over the past 20+ years; for a bit of fun, I learned a couple of "magic" card tricks and when I perform them for females, they are usually amazed and if they ask me to repeat, it's purely for the entertainment. Now males are a totally different story....they go nuts wanting to know "how?" and they ask me to repeat and repeat because they want to figure out how to do it....they offer money or to buy me a drink to spill the beans and they can become quite aggressive.
Go figure....
And now that I'm the proud Papa of two bright & lovely daughters, I can truly confirm that girls just plain rock!
It does not correlate with my experience of boys and girls, men an women, over my six decades on this planet.
I say it's phooey. There is no way you can make such gross, simplistic categorizations.
It is how I self taught myself programming and mechanics! It is where I get new ideas or recycle old ones
for my own robots. In the last two years I decided to take up 3D printing and have a scratch built and two
commercially made printers. I did the scratch built first and learned a lot about 3D printing and all it's ins
and outs on my own with research, reading and trial and error. You can see some of my work since then
on Thingiverse. I also self taught myself how to use Openscad which was not an easy endeavor. I am 72
years old and staying young by "analyzing" lots of things!
OpenScad is kind of cool, isn't it? But you are not really a example for the 'common 72 year old woman', you are just 'simple' amazing.
Mike
@"Carol Hazlett" - you are are the best!
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/12/10/obituaries/evelyn-berezin-dead.html?utm_source=Adafruit+Products+Newsletter&utm_campaign=c90deba8f6-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2018_12_18_04_29&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_f5693aed98-c90deba8f6-114443049
POF (Point of Fact) that gathering is managed by myself, and an exceptional young lady, to whom, she thinks we're related, long story not suitable here. All in all the ideas that were espoused by society as much as a generation earlier, regarding women and technology are being demolished.
And the Little Bits company based here in NYC was indeed started by a remarkable one. although at a discussion launched by DIsney and the LFL subsidiary she was upstaged by R2D2.
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And this space is being sponsored by the society for creating more anarchy and for a freer society.
https://inews.co.uk/light-relief/offbeat/olga-ladyzhenskaya-97th-birthday-google-doodle/
BTW, move over STEM, there's a new acronym on the block: TEALS! (Technology Education and Literacy in Schools)
@Ken, maybe there is a chance to partner with Microsoft Philanthropies on this one?
https://news.microsoft.com/features/cracking-the-code-to-helping-educators-learn-and-teach-computer-science/
https://blog.adafruit.com/2019/05/06/announcing-the-winners-of-the-2019-women-in-open-source-awards-limor-fried-adafruit-redhat-rhsummit-womenintech-opensource-oshw/?utm_source=Adafruit+Products+Newsletter&utm_campaign=f634c27241-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2019_05_06_03_20&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_f5693aed98-f634c27241-114443049
Thanks, @Publison!