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"We need to start reframing the conversation from instead of just trying to plug leaks, we need to get more students interested in the first place," Miller says.


Report: No 'Leaky Pipeline' for Women in STEM - US News
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Gender gaps in persistence have closed, although men still outnumber women overall.

ACM-W is happy to be a Bronze sponsor of the 2015 Richard Tapia Celebration of Diversity in Computing. Boston has a lot of snow on the ground, but it is great here at the conference!


ACM Richard Tapia Celebration of Diversity in Computing
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Richard Tapia Celebration of Diversity in Computing

A refutation of those who say that Ada didn't really contribute much.


Ada the Amplifier
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Plus updated links to our Knuth and TED talks Ada Lovelace was nuts. Some have used this to minimize her contributions to the stalled development of Charles Babbage's "Analytical Engine" in the 184...

"The solution isn’t to shun the image of the nerdy computer developer, the researchers said, but to make sure it isn’t the only image there is."


Study: Here's how to beat the stereotypes that keep women out of computer science - GeekWire
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Image via Shutterstock For computer science to grow, its most persistent stereotype has to fade. That's the takeaway from the work of a group of University

We are thrilled that the first all-Canada ACM-W celebration of women in computing will be held in Ottawa in January, 2016, building on the success of previous events held in that country. We are grateful for the leadership and amazing energy of the chief organizers: Wendy Powley, Anne Condon, and Gail Murphy.


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February issue of ACM-W Connections! See what we've been up to.


ACM-W Connections - February, 2015 | ACM-W supporting, celebrating and advocating for Women in...
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I anticipate that 2015 will be a year of numerous exciting announcements from ACM-W as we continue to grow and increase our reach and activities around the world. The first bit of exciting news has to do with our Celebration activities, but I won’t say more here – please read the announcement from J…

The Tor Project takes a stand against online harassment!


Solidarity against online harassment | The Tor Blog
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One of our colleagues has been the target of a sustained campaign of harassment for the past several months. We have decided to publish this statement to publicly declare our support for her, for every member of our organization, and for every member of our community who experiences this harassment.…

The list includes 3 Turing Award recipients, many ACM Fellows, many ACM members, and current ACM Vice President and ACM-W Europe Council member Vicki Hanson!


54 women who rocked the tech world
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There are loads of women tech leaders making huge contributions and having fabulous careers.

BCSWomen Lovelace Colloquium.


Aberystwyth University - Call for Abstracts
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All women students of computing and related subjects1 are invited to enter one of the poster contests at the BCSWomen Lovelace Colloquium. The poster contests are as follows:

Go to the actual interactive chart, put in some words, and see where CS falls. Interesting, if you put in "unfair", CS is the only discipline for which that word is used more for male faculty than for female. Considerably more computer science faculty are called "savvy", with women leading.Women lead across the board in being "unclear", except in math. But we also do pretty well at being "clear" (virtually tied with men in CS). Have fun trying out all the terms your students use to describe you.


Is the Professor Bossy or Brilliant? Much Depends on Gender
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An interactive chart of words taken from millions of student reviews of their instructors offers a vivid illustration of unconscious gender bias.

A giant ACM-W shout out to Radia Perlman who has been elected to the U.S. National Academy of Engineering for her contributions to Internet routing and bridging protocols. The fact that you can read this posting at all is thanks, in part, to Radia's work.

Second letter is co-authored by Jane Margolis (of Unlocking the Clubhouse and Stuck in the Shallow End).


Children and Technology: How Much Is Best?
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Educators respond to an Op-Ed article, “Can Students Have Too Much Tech?”

Double wow! A week ago we had just broken 1800 Likes, today we are over 1850. Thanks everyone! Keep spreading the word about ACM-W.

This makes a case for why we need to be very vigilant about what goes on in elementary school classrooms, but a bigger question is how do we get this information out to the very teachers who need to overcome their unconscious bias?


How Elementary School Teachers’ Biases Can Discourage Girls From Math and Science
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Early educational experiences have a quantifiable effect on the courses students choose later, a study shows.

"The upshot of all this is that even if there are innate mathematical abilities, their significance pales in comparison to the effects that culture has on mathematical performance. And certainly, given the weight of evidence for stereotyping effects, innate mathematical differences cannot be used, as some do, to justify gender gaps in technical fields. It's time to stop obsessively trying to find differences between men and women and to focus that energy on breaking down the cultural norms that keep girls out of math."


Are Women Worse at Math? It's Time to Stop Asking
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It has been shown that even seemingly inconsequential stimuli can lead to stereotype threat. Researchers found that female students who checked the gender box before taking their AP calculus exam, as students usually do, did worse than students who c...

Check out the page 2 discussion of Valkyrie!


Giving Robots Gender Might Be Bad for Human Women
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In 2007, General Motors ran a commercial featuring an assembly-line robot that loses its job after dropping a screw. The robot doesn’t look human—it’s a mechanical arm and some hydraulics mounted on a metal body with wheels. But it definitely felt human, enough that viewers’ concerned and angry resp…

This is a very nice film about the role of Grace Hopper and of the ENIAC women in the history of computing.


The Queen Of Code
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You probably don’t know the name Grace Hopper, but you should. As a rear admiral in the U.S. Navy, Hopper worked on the first computer, the Harvard Mark 1. And she headed the team that created the ...

Girls rock when it comes to math! If you are reading this on the ACM-W FB page, you probably aren't surprised.


Study: Girls outperform boys in math and science all over the world
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As Silicon Valley struggles to inject diversity into the male-dominated halls of tech companies, a new study suggests that women have a natural head start.

Another voice for "blind auditions" for tech jobs. Could this be the change we've been waiting for?


Can Blind Auditions Change the Ratio of Women in Tech Journalism?
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I was to be successful as a female tech founder, I would have to be more resilient, more persistent -- and willing to create an independent voice for our company, because I couldn't count on coverage by the press if I was in such a minority....

Wow! We seem to have picked up over 20 new Likes in the last week. Thanks everyone! We've broken 1800. Happy that more people will know about ACM-W. We'll keep doing our part to keep you informed about news and events related to women in computing..