Girl Geeks!
Annalee Newitz, co-editor of the book and blog She's Such a Geek!, declared 2007 the "Year of Women in Science." Newitz attributes recent focus on women in the sciences to backlash against Larry Summers' "ass-minded comments." Her post (12/19/06) highlights some 2006 studies investigating the role of women in the sciences. This week, the "Conference of Women Leaders in Science, Technology and Engineering" in Kuwait examined increasing opportunies for women scientists in Muslim-majority countries.
Web content for and about girl geeks doesn't seem to be in short supply, but often seem to focus more on the girl than the geek. CNET published a list of the Top Ten Girl Geeks in November that sparked quite a buzz, by completely missing the point*. GeekZine's GeekGirl of the Month and Geek Girls Rule! (both possibly NSFW) appear to be equally clue-free.
Newitz, and co-editor Charlie Anders, will be reading from She's Such a Geek at The Center for New Words in Cambridge, MA tonight. The anthology of essays discusses "the growing role of women in the sciences, fandom, gaming and other areas." While I constantly trip over girlgeek content in my personal browsing, searching for it this morning to provide links was more frustrating than I expected. While I'm all for the sexualization of... well, just about everything ... the very few sites that actually focus on these women's "geek cred" is annoying. She's Such a Geek is a good one, as is GirlGeeks.org.
Having completely failed to tie this into gender differences, I suppose I'll have to write about male nurses tomorrow, or something.
*bloggers were annoyed that Darryl Hannah and Paris Hilton made the cut. I didn't think the list was that bad, honestly.
Web content for and about girl geeks doesn't seem to be in short supply, but often seem to focus more on the girl than the geek. CNET published a list of the Top Ten Girl Geeks in November that sparked quite a buzz, by completely missing the point*. GeekZine's GeekGirl of the Month and Geek Girls Rule! (both possibly NSFW) appear to be equally clue-free.
Newitz, and co-editor Charlie Anders, will be reading from She's Such a Geek at The Center for New Words in Cambridge, MA tonight. The anthology of essays discusses "the growing role of women in the sciences, fandom, gaming and other areas." While I constantly trip over girlgeek content in my personal browsing, searching for it this morning to provide links was more frustrating than I expected. While I'm all for the sexualization of... well, just about everything ... the very few sites that actually focus on these women's "geek cred" is annoying. She's Such a Geek is a good one, as is GirlGeeks.org.
Having completely failed to tie this into gender differences, I suppose I'll have to write about male nurses tomorrow, or something.
*bloggers were annoyed that Darryl Hannah and Paris Hilton made the cut. I didn't think the list was that bad, honestly.