Archive for the ‘Equity’ Category
Wednesday, September 24th, 2008
Via Andy Lumsdaine, some practical ideas about how to make open source development less unwelcoming for women. I'd be very interested in hearing from projects that have tried some of these out.
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Thursday, September 11th, 2008
I'm at the "Science in the 21st Century" conference at the Perimeter Institute today. There are 32 people in the room right now: 23 are male and 9 are female, but only one is non-Caucasian, which pretty much matches the numbers in the picture from the conference dinner last ...
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Thursday, July 17th, 2008
The Nerd Girls are supposed to be on the Today show tomorrow (Friday July 18) --- anyone have details?
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Wednesday, July 2nd, 2008
Interesting article; reactions?
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Friday, May 16th, 2008
The New York Times ran a piece today on the under-representation of women in the sciences---in the Fashion and Style section, of course, because hey, women don't read the business pages, do they? *sigh*
Later: a friend pointed me at this piece in the Boston Globe, titled "The Freedom to Say ...
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Sunday, April 20th, 2008
Via Lin Zhou:
From: Susan Dorward
Google has started offering coaching to most of their employees, and I've been lucky enough to be approved as one of their coaches. They recently sponsored a series of talks given by their coaches and they have posted videos of these talks up on YouTube. ...
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Friday, March 21st, 2008
I couldn't attend the first SciBarCamp last weekend (I was three time zones away), but Nature magazine said good things, as others. W00t!
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Tuesday, February 5th, 2008
Registration is open for the next Toronto Girl Geek Dinner on Wednesday, February 20. No word yet on whether there are sponsored spots for students...
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Tuesday, October 9th, 2007
The next Toronto Girl Geek Dinner is set for next Wednesday, the 17th, at 7pm and they have sponsored spots for 12 students. It's a great networking opportunity: please visit http://torontogirlgeekdinners.pbwiki.com/ to sign up.
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Thursday, September 6th, 2007
Thanks to generous sponsorship from TUCOWS, the Toronto Geek Girls dinner series has spots for up to 25 female students (graduate or undergraduate) to attend the next dinner and talk on September 19. Space is limited, so sign up now!
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