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Posts tagged ‘role models’

2010.09.22   CompSci Woman: Looking for stories of women in computer science   (2)

My friend Cate and her friend Maggie have started a blog called CompSci Woman that I think many of you will enjoy reading, and hopefully some of you in computer science will be interested in ...

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2010.09.10   Geekspiration of the fictional kind   (59)

Here’s an Ask a Geek Feminist question for our readers (questions still being taken): Reading Rudy Simone’s Aspergirls prompted me to crystallise this question: where are the female role models for young geek women? I’m ...

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2010.01.09   Linkspamming ’round the clock (9th January, 2010)   (8)

Felicia Day is not pleased with Vanity Fair‘s condescending portrayal of herself and other female social media entrepreneurs. Role Models and Stereotypes: discussing the comparative helpfulness in attracting women to a field of both questioning ...

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2009.09.28   Names, glorious names   (19)

Some time back, I wrote: We [on the LinuxChix lists] also had a long-standing problem articulating what it was that led to the extreme gender imbalance in Free Software development and many of its user ...

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