Women In Technology - Friday Links - 24/02/2023
Published on March 7, 2023
Hello everyone,
We hope you are ready for an exciting weekend; our selection of links below to accompany you.
Mentoring
WIT has launched its yearly WIT Mentoring programme for the sixth time.
In addition to the sixth Mentoring programme, this year marks the launch of the Mentoring Circles, an alternative mentoring experience where a small group of mentors and mentees focus on topics such as work–life balance, professional development and more. It will also be an opportunity for networking.
Other takes on mentoring towards a more equal world:
We will get there faster if we work together
And although mentoring is just one of many possible solutions, “it’s not an either-or situation,” says Nagpal. “We need to do everything, like mentoring, fighting sexist exclusionary behaviors, training men to behave better, and investing money in better practices. We need to make up for a century of neither-nor.”
Two Women’s Basketball Coaches on Mentorship and Adjusting Expectations
WIT Community Annual Review
We are preparing for our annual review.
As always, your input is most welcome; please fill-in before Wed March 8th.
- WIT community survey to understand our demographics and get feedback on our activities. This survey is anonymous: https://forms.office.com/e/xwFXX3n09F
- Are you interested in contributing to WIT by volunteering for any of our activities? Please complete this form! Your CERN email address will be automatically recorded so we can get in touch with you: https://forms.office.com/e/TGHs6Lr7pT
In the news
YouTube’s Susan Wojcicki steps down, leaving Big Tech with no female CEOs
Wojcicki’s departure follows other high-profile female leaders who have left big technology companies. Earlier this week, Meta Chief Business Officer Marne Levine announced she would be leaving after 13 years at the company. Last year, Sheryl Sandberg announced she was stepping down as chief operating officer after a 14-year stint at the social media giant. Those departures leave the ranks of women in the c-suite of major tech companies even thinner.
The Group of 7 most economically advanced nations don’t fare well when it comes to representation of women. France is the top performer at number 36 in the ranking with 37.3% of female parliamentarians, followed by Germany (ranked 44, 34.9%), the UK (ranked 45, 34.7%), Italy (ranked 56, 32.3%) and Canada (ranked 62, 30.5%).
As a government, we have to make a decision: Are we going to dare to be part of the democratizing impulse that comes from the feminist movement and from civil society, or are we going to maintain a more cowardly or conservative attItude?
In the movies
Just 9 out of 116 AI professionals in key films are women, study finds
Given that male engineers have repeatedly been shown to engineer products that are most suitable for and adapted to male users, employing more women is essential for addressing the encoding of bias and pejorative stereotypes into AI technologies
Cate Blanchett’s Tár is an abusive boss, but her story has much to tell us about feminism too
The International Film Festival and Forum on Human Rights FIFDH is coming up and the wit-sc has identified few screenings we would like to attend; join us in the movies!
Events
La Semaine de l’égalité, organisée du 2 au 12 mars par la Ville de Genève
Cheers,
Eva on behalf of CERN WIT Communications
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