Women In Technology - Friday Links - 25/11/2022
Hi there,
Here is our selection of links for this weekend:
Reach for the stars
ESA announced on Wednesday the new generation of astronauts and we are all delighted!
ESA managed gender parity as well as the first parastronaut. And if ESA can do it for space, sure we can do that too!
Even more exciting is that one of our CERN colleagues, Slawosz Uznanski from EPC (bottom right) is one of the astronauts on reserve.
Slawosz was born dreaming to become a cosmonaut and he’s now ready for the stars!
https://home.cern/news/news/cern/cern-space-staff-member-selected-join-esa-2022-astronaut-class
For inspiration you can have a look at the new astronaut profiles:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oAoQZnQcj_A
ESA’s target for 2025 is 40%. The percentage of female staff at ESA has risen systematically over the last five years, currently standing at 29%. The progress on the gender representation in leadership positions is also remarkable: in 2021, the share of women in top management positions reached a record level of 17%, a significant increase considering a value of 8% in 2016.
Here are the key elements to complete the ESA gender transformation:
https://www.esa.int/About_Us/Corporate_news/Eight_steps_to_advance_ESA_diversity
Let’s now remember an interview with Valentina Tereskova, first woman is space:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jmW2eUlrmw8
And contemplate about living in a New Era for Women in Space:
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/blogs/smithsonian-books/2022/11/18/new-era-women-space-on-screen-off/
Black Friday?
It’s Black Friday today, you may support women-owned business for essentials:
https://edition.cnn.com/cnn-underscored/home/women-owned-businesses
get to know 10 billion-dollar businesses you didn’t know were started by women:
https://www.businessinsider.com/businesses-started-by-women-2019-8?r=US&IR=T
or fully go against the trend:
As a market, women represent an opportunity bigger than China and India combined:
https://hbr.org/2009/09/the-female-economy
Robotics Lab visit
Book your agendas for Friday 9th Dec on an after-work visit at the CERN robotics lab with Eloise Matheson, followed by drinks.
More details to come!
Next week’s events
What: Lunch with Dr Stephanie Hare, author of the book Technology Is Not Neutral: A Short Guide to Technology Ethics
When: Monday 28 Nov 2022 at 12h30
Where: Please bring your meal or grab a sandwich from R1 and we meet in the area close to the 500/1-001 auditorium
What: WIT Talk with Dana Moshkovitz, Theoretical Computer Scientist
When: Tuesday 29 Nov 2022 at 16h00
Where: Zoom
Wishing you all a wonderful weekend,
Eva on behalf of CERN WIT Communications
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