Women In Technology - Friday Links - 27/01/2023
Hello everybody,
Here is our selection of Friday links.
Events and initiatives around the International Day of Women and Girls in Science on 11th February
This year’s theme for the International Day of Women and Girls in Science on 11th February is:
Innovate. Demonstrate. Elevate. Advance. Sustain
IDEAS: Bringing everyone forward
Our WIT social media team are planning to launch a campaign similar to what we did last year. Have a look at our Instagram campaign from February last year using this link to see how many amazing women in science we put a spotlight on.
For this year’s campaign, we want to again highlight the inspirational women in our community. Therefore, we would like to ask for your help!
If you would like to get involved with our campaign on Instagram and LinkedIn, we would love for you to send us 2 or 3 photos that portray what you like/enjoy about your job - bonus points for linking it to this years theme of sustainability 😉 - alongside a sentence that represents a piece of advice that you would give to your younger self. If you are on Instagram and/or LinkedIn and would like to be tagged in the post we create, please also send your account handles so that we can tag you.
If you are interested in learning more about the #February11 initiative itself and some of the work going on, check out the following websites:
https://www.un.org/en/observances/women-and-girls-in-science-day
https://www.womeninscienceday.org/index.html
CERN will be hosting a public event at the Globe:
The Hidden Force, on Wednesday 8 February 2023 from 8pm to 9:30pm
Registrations at https://indico.cern.ch/event/1228843/
The CERN D&I programme, the ALICE and CMS Diversity Offices and the LHCb ECGD are hosting an interactive theatre piece on sexism at work that takes place on 9 February from 2pm to 4pm in the Globe. Details and registration at https://indico.cern.ch/event/1245112/
If you are aware of any events coming up these days for the 11th of February please send us an email ([email protected]) so that we can share it to the community.
Workshop, Conferences and Events
You are still on time to connect to at https://indico.cern.ch/event/1240247/ for the WITalk with Fermilab’s Lorena Lobato, which takes place today at 16:00.
If you live around Hamburg or happen to be there, there is an exhibition on sexualised violence and false victim blaming that is opening next week.
More info at https://www.cui-advanced.uni-hamburg.de/en/diversity/was-hattest-du-an.html
For French speaking only:
Devoxx4Kids est une conférence réservée aux enfants de 4 à 15 ans. Le but est de découvrir de manière ludique la programmation, la robotique ou encore l’électronique avec des outils adaptés à leur âge.
Devoxx4Kids aura lieu le 11 mars 2023 au Globe du CERN.
WIT organise un atelier de programmation avec la carte Micro:bit et le robot Bit:Bot XL.
Nous cherchons 4-6 volontaires pour nous aider avec l’atelier pendant toute la journée. Une séance d’information est prévu Vendredi 24 février a 17h.
Plus de détails sur Indico : https://indico.cern.ch/event/1246793/
Il faut s’inscrire sur Indico et choisir les séances ou vous êtes disponible le 11 Mars. Les volontaires vont recevoir un t-shirt Devvox4Kids et un « Lunch bag » le jour de l’évènement. Ils auront aussi droit à une pré-inscription pour les enfants avant que l’évènement soit public (du 1 au 5 février).
Past events and presentations
The WIT community workshop of last Friday gave us many ideas of how to improve our website https://wit-hub.web.cern.ch .
Thanks a lot for ones that participated. It was a great experience and we very much enjoyed it!
We are planning to put the ideas into proactive and update the website in the next weeks.
Articles and links
The new Gender Equality Index has been published.
https://eige.europa.eu/gender-equality-index/2022
The Gender Equality Index gives the EU and the Member States a score from 1 to 100. A score of 100 would mean that a country had reached full equality between women and men.
Safe space: online groups lift up women in tech. Four leaders of groups dedicated to women in technology share their stories and tips for better allyship.
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-022-03798-y
Women in tech statistics: the latest research and trends https://www.techtarget.com/whatis/feature/Women-in-tech-statistics-The-latest-research-and-trends
Greetings,
Adriana
on behalf of CERN WIT Communications
About the Women in Technology (WIT) Community: The aim of this community is to provide an environment in which women are not in the minority when interacting with technology. Our objectives are: to encourage women to play the role of expert; to provide a supportive learning environment; and to build a network between the Women in Technology here at CERN. WIT welcomes members from all genders and all technical fields. Visit cern.ch/wit