Posts tagged ‘education’

Women in genre fiction, a non-physicist at CERN, open journal access as a feminist issue, and more!

Here’s some talented young women in science showing off their lego trophies: Our judges said the unifying elements of all three young women were their intellectual curiosity, their tenaciousness and their ambition to use science ...

I just ran across Karen Rustad’s “How to teach programming: shy, practical people edition.” She cared more about making practical things than about what she perceived as “coding,” so her early technical life centered on ...

This is a question that was posed to the Ada Initiative. It’s a bit out of scope for us right now (we’re focussed on fundraising), so I told Robin Whitney, who posed it, that I’d ...

Betsy Leondar-Wright and ana australiana write about the impenetrability of middle-class activism to working class people, and about how the sidelining of middle-class subcultures isn’t equivalent to systemic oppression: It’s not “them” — it’s us!, ...

This is a guest post from Christine Cheng. She is a research fellow in politics at Exeter College, University of Oxford. In a previous life, she studied systems design engineering and was student government president ...

This post was originally published at Restructure! Several recent studies have suggested that the gender gap in STEM fields is caused not by bias, but simply by different choices made by men and women. What ...

This one’s from last month, but it was sent to me after my last quick hit and I couldn’t resist the urge to share another story of young folk doing ground-breaking science work: “We discovered ...

In anticipation of a December/January slowdown, we’re reposting some older writing for the benefit of new (and nostalgic!) readers. This piece originally appeared on Oct 17, 2009. It comes up a lot in discussions of ...

From Diagrams that changed the world (BBC News): One of the first to use the visual world to navigate numbers was Florence Nightingale. Although better known for her contributions to nursing, her greatest achievements were ...

This is an amended version of a post I wrote for the CU-WISE blog (my local Women in Science and Engineering group). See below for additional comments to geek feminism readers. This Wednesday fun is ...

This is cross-posted at Restructure! I demonstrated an aptitude for computers when I was a young girl, but I didn’t have home Internet access until I graduated from high school. I blame the Patriarchy, partly. ...

This Ask a Geek Feminist question is about stereotype threat: What can I do when stereotype threat is playing games with my head? To give an example, I once had to take an IQ test ...

Students who did not have the privilege of hacking since they were young are at a disadvantage in Computer Science (CS). However, CS departments can teach introductory programming using an obscure functional programming language to ...

This is a modified version of a post that was originally published at Restructure! In Drawings of Scientists, seventh graders draw and describe their image of scientists before and after a visit to Fermilab. BEFORE ...

Lucy Connor’s “Diversity at what cost?” and Benjamin Otte’s blog post on equality got me thinking about the backlash against diversity and outreach initiatives in open source. Specifically, I sometimes see arguments that inclusivity is ...