Through my outreach activities I’ve learned about some really cool women and what they contributed to the field of science/engineering. There’s one that’s fun to talk about - Hedy Lamarr. The girls like hearing about her because not only did she create signal technology that’s used every day, but she was also a glamorous movie […]
Dear Rachael,
I watch your show each morning while I run on the treadmill at the gym. Your upbeat personality is generally a cheerful way to start the day, and I enjoy getting recipe ideas for that night’s dinner.
Monday was an exception. You gave your audience members an HD Tuner Stick with a cute baby remote […]
I am a girl.
I like technology.
It’s frustrating when companies think that all they need to do to make a product appealing to a woman is paint it pink.
There’s way more to it than that. It’s nice to read about some companies that seem to finally be getting it. One of my favourite tech blogs had […]
Last week was EX.I.T.E. camp here at the Toronto Lab. I was one of the co-chairs.
Camp got a lot of media coverage which was fun. It was also great to see how creatively they spelled the camp name. At least they got mine right (well, one called me jen).
For the record, it’s EX.I.T.E. (EXploring Interests […]
I received two emails today pointing me to this article in the Toronto Star. This article, which discusses lonelygirl15* and her too-good-to-be-true-ness, has the headline:
More proof there are no actual women online
YouTube’s popular Lonelygirl15 turns out to be a fake,
as filmmakers admit they’ve been producing online show
Sound familiar? So come on out to […]
I’m totally psyched to be co-chairing a second CASCON workshop called “Women in Technology: New Strategies to Attract a New Generation of Girls.” From the online description:
The recent dramatic decline of female enrolments in computer science and engineering education programs follows a time when female participation had peaked in the late 1990s. This leads to […]
This is pretty cool:
Women 2.0 Conference - The Next Generation of Entrepreneurs
according to this article, you can have your cake and eat it too.
but the more i think about it, it really depends what your cake is. i mean, i don’t think i could give up having long hair. and gil would never give up his favourite grown up activity.
so is someone else’s cake […]
The number of women in Canadian engineering schools dropped by 20 per cent between 1999 and 2004, according to the Canadian Council of Professional Engineers.
The most dramatic drop was in first-year enrolment, the society said.
The decline followed a decade in which a record number of Canadian women broke into the male-dominated world of engineering.
From […]
I really enjoyed this article from the Boston globe. It addresses an issue that is very personal to me which I’ve been giving lots of thought to lately in particular. In some ways, it’s a high level overview of the book Unlocking the Clubhouse. The article is definitely worth a read.
I’m especially impressed that […]