Women In Technology Day
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The document discusses the gender gap in technology, highlighting its historical causes and current trends, including societal perceptions that deter women from pursuing tech degrees. It emphasizes the economic implications of this gap, revealing that countries with greater gender equality perform better economically and companies with female executives achieve superior outcomes. Additionally, it notes the existence of successful female role models in technology and science, despite ongoing challenges.
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Women In Technology Day
- 1. Women in Technology Day @DERI Author: Leggieri Myriam [email_address]
- 2. Overview Gender Gap in Technology Inverted tendency Current Causes Past Causes Why is it a problem? Economic Development Successful Role-Models Women in Technology Groups
- 3. Gender Gap in Technology – Inverted Tendency 1/2 Source: http://www2.cs.cmu.edu/~women/resources/aroundTheWeb/hostedPapers/Syllabus-Camp.pdf % Bachelor Degrees awarded in Science and Engineering to Women (National Centre for Education Statistics at the U.S. Dept. of Education)
- 4. Gender Gap in Technology – Inverted Tendency 2/2 % Female Tech Degree Recipients In 2008: % Female Computer Science Degree Recipients In 1985: In 2008: Source: http://ncwit.org/pdf/BytheNumbers09.pdf There was an interest that has decreased.
- 5. Gender Gap in Technology – Current causes 1/2 Different perspective view Females: impact of technology on other disciplines to help better society. Males: computers as a toy; no connection to a larger goal.(Margolis, J., Fisher, A., and Miller, F. 1999. Caring About Connections: Gender and Computing. IEEE Technology and Society.) While Computer science courses: programming and data abstractions instead of societal contexts of technology
- 6. Gender Gap in Technology – Current causes 2/2 “ Geeks" or "Nerds": spend all time in front of a computer with no social interaction. This perception is more detrimental to females than it is to males. - Females distaste with the idea of computers "becoming their life" Source: http://www.cs.ubc.ca/wccce/program04/Papers/mark.html
- 7. Gender Gap in Technology – Past causes 1/2 Germany: to attend universities even as listener, women had to obtain the permission of - the Minister of Education - until 1908: the directors of the courses. Oxford - in the '30s: women chemists could attend general sessions, but not the clubs in which one discussed advanced research.
- 8. Gender Gap in Technology – Past causes 2/2 "Equal pay for equal work" was a delightful joke: per equal academic status, women earned half that of a male colleague. The anti-nepotism laws: prevented universities from hiring the relatives of existing staff - applied to a crowd of women scientists and professors' wives -> Maria Goeppert Mayer (Nobel prize; proposed the "shell model of the atomic nucleus") - waited till turning 53 to get a job (since her husband was a professor) while freely volunteering in important universities
- 9. Why is it a problem? - Economic Development 1/3 Report's Global Gender Gap Index - how well countries are dividing resources and opportunities among males and females 4 critical areas of Inequality: 1. Economic participation and opportunity – outcomes on salaries, participation levels and access to high-skilled employment 2. Educational attainment – outcomes on access to basic and higher level education 3. Political empowerment – outcomes on representation in decision-making structures 4. Health and survival – outcomes on life expectancy and sex ratio
- 10. Why is it a problem? - Economic Development 2/3 Report's Global Gender Gap Index: 2009 – First countries: Iceland, Finland, Norway, Sweden 2009 – Last countries: Italy, Greece, Czech Republic Ireland has improved its rank from the 8 th position in 2008 and 2009; to the 6 th position in 2010 -> Gender Gap is inversely proportional to the Economic Development
- 11. Why is it a problem? - Economic Development 3/3 Companies employing at least 30% female executives perform better than all-male outfits. Female managers are more likely than men to - make collaborative decisions (“Choose a women ahead of the next Einstein”, Time), - behave as role models - consider the ethical consequences of their acts. - be focused on customers - work on planning, prioritizing and administering - be focus on results Studies: McKinsey & Co. , 2007 ; HCL's internal 360 Degree Feedback process Source: http://www.vineetnayar.com/women-leadership-yes-she-can/
- 12. Successful Role-Models Despite all this (then struggling even more): there have been role models (plus 10 Nobel prizes) in Scientific fields Gertrude Elion , Ada E. Yonath , Jean Sammet , Rosalyn Sussman Yalow , Shafi Goldwasser - informatica sviluppatrice dell'algoritmo Blum-Goldwasser per la crittografia asim , Annie Jump Cannon , Joan Robinson , Barbara McClintock , Gerty Radnitz Cori , Rozsa Pèter - fondatrice della teoria delle funzioni ricorsive. , Barbara Liskov , Elizabeth H- Blackburn e Carol W. Greider - Nobel per la Medicina nel 2009 per i loro studi svolti r , Chieng-Shiung , Grace Hopper , Kay McNulty, Betty Snyder, Marlyn Wescoff, Ruth Lichterman, Betty Jennings, and Fran Bilas - prime p , Marie Goeppert Mayer , Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin , Hedy Lamarr , Marie Curie -premio Nobel per la Medicina e per la Fisica. , Eva Tardos , Christiane Nusslein-Volhard , Rosalind Franklin , Ol'ga Aleksandrovna Ladyženskaja , Erna Scheider , Irène Joliot-Curie , Frances E. Allen , Elinor Ostrom - premio Nobel per l'Economia nel 2009 , Rita Levi Montalcini - premio Nobel per la Medicina per la scoperta dei fattori di crescita nello sv , Radia Perlman - uno dei maggiori specialisti mondiali nell'ambito del software design e dell'ingegne , Jeri Ellsworth - sviluppò un emulatore del Commodore 64 all'interno di un Joystick, nel 2004 , Karen Sparck Jones , Linda B. Buck , TU , Jocelyn Bell-Burner Only between 1900 and 2009:
- 13. Women in Technology Groups National Center for Women & Information Technology: http://ncwit.org/ Association for Women in Science: http://www.awis.org/ IEEE Women in Engineering: http://www.ieee.org/membership_services/membership/women/index.html Girl Geek Dinners: http://girlgeekdinners.com/ DevChix female programmers: http://www.devchix.com/ Debian Women: http://women.debian.org/ Ubuntu Women: http://www.ubuntu-women.org/ LinuxChix women-oriented Linux community: http://www.linuxchix.org/