I think my talk on attracting women to open source went well enough. The room started out looking pretty sleepy and passive, but I'd managed to seed the crowd with some talkative friends, and once a couple of them got the ball rolling people got down to discussion in a good way ( Read more... )

A friend sent me this, and I'll probably blog about it more coherently for cu-wise, but for now here's the link:

Top Paying Jobs for WomenI like to believe I'm not hugely financially motivated (as evidenced by remaining a student so long) but I have to admit I feel a twinge of happy to see that computer software engineering is #4 on the list, IT ( Read more... )

I'm running a Birds of a Feather session about attracting more women to open source software at the Linux Symposium tomorrow (err, today. Weds, July 15th, 3pm ( Read more... )

Cross-posted on CU-WISE Blog:

Ever wondered about what women encounter working in science and engineering?

One of our upcoming CU-WISE events is a talk by Dr. Christine Waechter. I got a chance to talk with her at Ottawa U after Dr. Tamaki Sato's talk ( Read more... )

Oh, and I forgot to point it out, but bokunenjin got me a vgift! Isn't it nifty? Proceeds to support Women for Women International, which sounds pretty darned neat.

Thanks bokunenjin!

Happy International Women's DayIn honour of that, I guess I'm going to be doing my data structures assignment, continuing in my quest to be among the relatively few women who obtain PhDs, and mine will be in a specifically non-traditional field for a woman at that ( Read more... )

Fellow Linuxchix Sulamita posted an article that I found quite interesting, with a slightly different take on gender inequality in sciences:

Transgender Experience Led Stanford Scientist To Critique Gender DifferenceA few choice paragraphs ( Read more... )

I'm not sure about the name, but I do like this article about candidates for an all-girl professional gaming team. Women gamers rock. :) (No, not biased at *all ( Read more... )