[NCUC-DISCUSS] Only one woman

[Milan, Stefania]

Thanks everyone for sharing so many good projects, not everything I was aware of. I knew there were many active people in this list, but seeing so many caring about this is refreshing (I am a new member, remember).

When temporarily working at the ministry of education of my country I had made several attempts in this direction, with promising outcomes (except the government didn't last long enough for any implementation) - hence my interest.


ps my mum was a programmer :-) I got a hard science education, but ended up at university doing something completely different, still maintaining a passion for messing around with machines and software. Proof that freedom of choice is the way to go, but that we need to multiply the role models for those who are too young to be on this list! Thanks for all your work and dedication.


stefi


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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<http://www.eniacprogrammers.org>

Best,
Kathy


@Kathy,

I mentioned ENIAC project on slide No. 5 :-)

Alex



On Tue, Apr 8, 2014 at 11:44 PM, Alex Gakuru <gakuru at gmail.com<mailto:gakuru at gmail.com>> wrote:
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>





On Tue, Apr 8, 2014 at 11:30 PM, Joly MacFie <joly at punkcast.com<mailto:joly at punkcast.com>> wrote:

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/.


On Tue, Apr 8, 2014 at 4:03 PM, William Drake <wjdrake at gmail.com<mailto:wjdrake at gmail.com>> wrote:
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

Bill

On Apr 8, 2014, at 8:08 PM, Kathy Kleiman <Kathy at kathykleiman.com<mailto:Kathy at kathykleiman.com>> wrote:

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)

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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?
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