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- Women in Tech: A Wired News Collection
Women keep breaking through the silicon ceiling, but haven't shattered it yet. Wired News looks at the people leading the way:
Dear Colleague letter from Dr. Ruzena Bajcsy, National Science Foundation, announcing a new initiative focusing on the Underrepresentation of Women and Minorities in the IT Workforce.
To keep the women engineers and to attract a far larger number of female engineering students, companies and educational institutions all over the world have implemented recruitment and retention strategies to increase the participation of women. Many of these are highly successful and need to be shared internationally.
Net's demand for talent means more women are
reaching the top levels of management
By Jane Weaver MSNBC
Author: Nadia S. Halim
REWARDING WOMEN IN SCIENCE: Female candidates deal with complications in the nomination and award processes, but
many are optimistic about the future.
The CRA Committee on the Status of Women in Computing Research (CRA-W) announced that it has inducted two new co-chairs to head up the organization. The torch is being passed to Anne Condon of the University of British Columbia and Mary Lou Soffa of the University of Pittsburgh.
Everyone knows that the technology field is dominated by men. That's why success stories such as those of Carly Fiorina, CEO of Hewlett-Packard, and Meg Whitman, CEO of eBay, stand out--it's the contrast that makes them interesting. But despite their small numbers, women who have succeeded in the world of computing, especially in the Internet space, are surprisingly bullish about the prospects for women in technology.
Under Anita Borg's leadership, women may revolutionize the future of Silicon Valley and the products it brings to market.
Member of the research staff in the office of the Chief Technologist at Xerox's Palo Alto Research Center (PARC), Dr. Anita Borg is also the President and Founding Director of the Institute for Women and Technology - a Xerox-supported R&D organization focused on increasing the impact of women on technology and increasing the positive impact of technology on the world's women.
While their numbers are still small—the Information Technology Association of America reports that women hold just 25 percent of all professional IT positions—they bring invaluable skills to IT organizations. Relationship management, flexibility and diplomacy are just a few of the talents CIOs need to master in today's tumultuous business climate. And as some IT organizations are learning to their benefit, many women executives excel in these areas.
Mentoring Undergraduate Women in Computer Science and Computer Engineering
The goal of the CRA Distributed Mentor Project (DMP) is to increase the number of women entering graduate school in Computer Science and Computer Engineering (CS&CE). To achieve this, the project matches outstanding female undergraduates in the U.S. with female mentors for a summer of research at the mentor's institution. Students are thereby provided with a window on research and graduate life, and enjoy the benefits of a close mentoring relationship. Conceived and managed by the Computing Research Association Committee on Women (CRA-W), this project was initially awarded approximately $240K from the National Science Foundation for the two years 1994 and 1995. In 1995, CRA-W received $530K to continue the project for the three years 1996 to 1998 and to perform a third-party evaluation of the project.
Computer Scientist Nancy Leveson aims to keep the skies friendly with glitch -free software
The National Science Board (NSB) has named Maxine Frank Singer, Ph.D., president of the Carnegie Institution of Washington, D.C. to receive the 1999 Vannevar Bush Award for lifetime contributions to science and engineering.
The primary purpose of the WEPAN Pilot Climate Survey was to develop a method to assess engineering student perceptions of the educational climate at colleges and universities in the U.S. More than 8000 male and female undergraduate engineering students from 29 institutions responded to the survey. Participating institutions used their individual reports to gain insight into specific aspects of the environment on their campuses that require attention for all students. Aggregate data yielded interesting findings regarding gender differences in areas related to student self-confidence and self-esteem that require further study.
by Polly Sprenger
23.Dec.98.PST
Thirty-four years after the creation of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, women scientists say the old-boys' clubs of the science and technology fields still won't give them equal treatment.
ATLANTA, GEORGIA -- The CRA Committee on the Status of Women in Computing Research (CRA-W) held a very successful "Workshop on Research Careers for Women in Computer Science and Engineering" in conjunction with the Association for Computing Machinery's (ACM) Federated Computing Research Conference April 30 - May 1 in Atlanta, Georgia. The goal of the workshop was to provide computer science undergraduate and graduate students, professors, and researchers from industry and the national laboratories--especially females--an opportunity to share information critical for achieving success in computer science.
The number and proportion of women and minorities enrolled and earning undergraduate and graduate science and engineering [S&E] degrees continues to increase, while the number of white men doing so is decreasing, according to a National Science Foundation [NSF] report released today to Congress.
The ACM's Committee on Women Will Use NSF Grant to Study Sharp Decrease in Women Earning Computer Science Degrees
NEW YORK, November 9, 1998. The Association for Computing Machinery's (ACM) Committee on Women in Computing (ACM-W) announced today that it would take steps to analyze and help reverse a disturbing gender gap problem. Recent studies by groups such as the American Association of University Women show a dramatic drop in the ratio of women to men involved in computing from high school to graduate school.
Women approach research with great care. But their low publication rate crimps their careers.
Findings from The Condition of Education 1997: Women in Mathematics and Science.
September 23, 1998
Many of us in computer science are aware of the pipeline shrinkage problem; the pipeline represents the ratio of women involved in computer science from high school to graduate school. In this article, we discuss the incredible shrinking pipeline. In addition to the pipeline shrinking from high school to graduate school, the pipeline also shrinks at the bachelor's level. Furthermore, while the percentage of bachelor's degrees awarded in CS to women decreased almost every year over the last decade, the corresponding percentages of other science and engineering disciplines increased. Since the number of women at the bachelor's level affects the number of women at levels higher in the pipeline and in the job market, these facts are of great concern. In this article, we look at the harsh facts concerning the percentage of degrees awarded in CS to women since 1980 and we speculate on what the future holds. Lastly, we request the community to respond to the issues presented in this article.