A recent National Academies report, Beyond Bias and Barriers: Fulfilling the Potential of Women in Academic Science and Engineering, found that women repeatedly face biases in academia in the science fields, and that these barriers to success discourage them from careers in these areas. In response to this report, Rep. Eddie Bernice Johnson (D-TX) recently introduced the Gender Bias Elimination Act (H.R. 3514).
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Dr. Sharon Schulze of the Science House, the state’s lead organization for the National Girls Collaborative Project, spoke to AAUW Raleigh/Wake County on Tuesday. You can find her slides and additional resources at http://rwc.aauwnc.org/2007/11/125/
Tara Hunt on the O’Reilly Network writes “Women Who Risk: Making Women in Technology Visible†— she’s got many examples of women’s entrepreneurial success stories (looking for a keynote speaker?), particularly in the Web 2.0 culture.
Check out the website of the PBS show, Design Squad — pbskids.org/designsquad/
for episodes covering the use of remote-controlled cameras to cover a basketball game, building bridges without power tools, and more.
The September 18 kickoff meeting for the Girls Collaborative in North Carloina was a great networking event. Nearly 50 people attended in Raleigh, and a few joined us from remote sites in Rosman and Elizabeth City. For more information, see the http://www.science-house.org/ngcp/kickoff.html but here are a few pictures giving the flavor of the day.
There’s a group in the UK that’s working on a certification program for those who recommend or choose Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) tools/applications/environments for nonprofit organizations.
What was interesting to me about the announcement was that on the team of subject matter experts that are developing the certification, a majority are women. Shades of Tech-Savvy! When there’s a *point* to the work, we get on board as quickly as the guys!
Effective September 1, Jennifer McDaniel will be taking over as the single AAUW Regional Liaison for the entire South Atlantic region for the National Girls Collaborative Project. She has been serving as the liaison for the southern part of the South Atlantic Region since January of this year. You may recognize her name from Kay…
The kick-off for The Science House Girls Collaborative is scheduled for September 18 in Raleigh. Agenda follows. AAUW is working with the National Science Foundation to open more opportunities for girls in science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM). The goal of the National Girls Collaborative Project (NGCP) is to facilitate collaboration among projects so that…
Kay White, president of AAUW Chapel Hill, attended the Association Convention in Phoenix, but was not able to be at our summer meeting. Here is her report on the National Girls Collaborative Project Workshop
We’ll be talking more about the National Girls Collaborative Project at the AAUW NC Summer meeting, but the message I took from Phoenix was that the most important thing for branch members to do is to find the programs in our communities that are helping girls move towards science, technology, engineering and math and get…
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