[NCUC-DISCUSS] Only one woman

[Kathy Kleiman]

Hooray, and tx you so much, Alex!

I founded and run the ENIAC Programmers Project -- that researched and 
now works to tell the story of the six young women who programmed the 
first all-electronic, digital computer, as part of a secret WWII project 
in the US. When the ENIAC was unveiled to the press and the public in 
1946, after the War, the hardware engineers and Army officers (all men) 
were introduced, but the women (the programmers were not). One of the 
reasons we think girls shy away from computing is the lack of role 
models -- and we are trying to bring these invisible women into the light!

My quite-old-website-which-is-soon-to-get-a-big-revamp can be found at 
www.eniacprogrammers.org

Best,
Kathy


> @Kathy,
>
> I mentioned ENIAC project on slide No. 5 :-)
>
> Alex
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> On Tue, Apr 8, 2014 at 11:44 PM, Alex Gakuru <gakuru at gmail.com 
> <mailto:gakuru at gmail.com>> wrote:
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>     Acknowledging local interventions in regard: Women, Girls and ICT
>     <http://extranet.cck.go.ke/indico/conferenceDisplay.py?confId=0>
>     My presentation slides at the workshop: Alex Gakuru presentation
>     <http://extranet.cck.go.ke/indico/getFile.py/access?contribId=8&sessionId=7&resId=0&materialId=slides&confId=0>
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>     On Tue, Apr 8, 2014 at 11:30 PM, Joly MacFie <joly at punkcast.com
>     <mailto:joly at punkcast.com>> wrote:
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>         Here is some video I recently shot on the topic.
>         http://isoc-ny.org/p2/6300 - The ITU's Tech Needs Girls
>         campaign is another good initiative
>         http://www.techneedsgirls.org/.
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>         On Tue, Apr 8, 2014 at 4:03 PM, William Drake
>         <wjdrake at gmail.com <mailto:wjdrake at gmail.com>> wrote:
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>             The NYTimes had a related article the other day with some
>             statistics
>             http://www.nytimes.com/2014/04/06/technology/technologys-man-problem.html?ref=technology&_r=0
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>             Bill
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>             On Apr 8, 2014, at 8:08 PM, Kathy Kleiman
>             <Kathy at kathykleiman.com <mailto:Kathy at kathykleiman.com>>
>             wrote:
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>>             Interesting that you mention that. Some women on this
>>             list are working very hard to share rolemodels in
>>             technology with girls and young women - to assure them
>>             that computing and technology careers lie within their
>>             future -- and that we need them badly!!!
>>
>>             Best,
>>             Kathy
>>
>>             :
>>>             Anyway the problem is when women are... What... 6,
>>>             10-year-old. i mean, when they are girls with many
>>>             options but get shown only some (and science/computing
>>>             hardly among the latter)
>>>
>>>             Sent from my iPhone
>>>
>>>             On 08/apr/2014, at 18:28, "Stephanie Perrin"
>>>             <stephanie.perrin at mail.utoronto.ca
>>>             <mailto:stephanie.perrin at mail.utoronto.ca>> wrote:
>>>
>>>>             No kidding!
>>>>             Stephanie Perrin
>>>>             On 2014-04-08, at 8:42 AM, DeeDee Halleck wrote:
>>>>
>>>>>             http://www.internethalloffame.org/inductees
>>>>>
>>>>>             how many women on the panel that does the choosing?
>>>>>             xx
>>>>>             dd
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