Women In Technology - Friday Links - 10/05/2024
Dear all,
Please find below our selection of Friday links for this week!
Enjoy the weekend!
Inma, for WIT comms
Article: Council adopts first-ever EU law combating violence against women
Article: More Women Work in Nonprofits. So Why Do Men End Up Leading Them?
Article: Nature publishes too few papers from women researchers — that must change
Article: Teens who discovered new way to prove Pythagoras’s theorem uncover even more proofs
Podcast: Caitlin Krause on digital wellbeing, building worlds and designing wonder.
Caitlin shares her insights on mindfulness, storytelling, and immersive technology, drawing from her role as a Stanford University instructor teaching "Digital Wellbeing: Healthy Relationships with Technology." She discusses her journey, from founding MindWise to her interdisciplinary approach shaped by childhood influences, experiences in Russia, and family guidance.
Podcast: Mathematics for ladies
When poet Jessy Randall started researching the lives of female scientists she became angry. And we certainly can relate here at Lost Women of Science. So many women made important discoveries but received little recognition. In this episode of Lost Women of Science Conversations, Randall talks to Carol Sutton Lewis about Mathematics for Ladies: Poems on Women in Science, the collection of poems born of that anger. They discuss what it means to be the first in a field, the ethics of poetic license, and the importance of female role models in STEM. Randall’s poems are about some of the women we’ve featured in our podcast, including the first Black female doctor, Rebecca Lee Crumpler, and the physicist Lise Meitner.
Participate!
The deadline to apply for the Mentoring@CERN Programme is approaching (15 May!). As a reminder, LHC Early Careers Mentoring Committee and the Women in Technology@CERN have teamed up to launch a new mentoring program this year- Mentoring@CERN. Everyone who has a contract with CERN (whether as a student, fellow, USER, PART, external contractor…) is welcome to apply: https://indico.cern.ch/event/1403179/ For more info, visit https://wit-hub.web.cern.ch/mentoring/ or contact them at [email protected]
Upcoming events
May 4-31, 2024: Audrey Hepburn - A unique retrospective by the Bolle Museum based on the graphic novel by Christopher and Eileen Hofer.
May 30, 2024: CERN Alumni Swiss Romandie networking event (byLuigia, Geneva).
May 30, 2024: Are you interested in meeting other career-oriented women and mothers, seeking advice and tips on living and working in Geneva, or just want to expand your network? Attend the sip&socialize event organized by Career Steps Geneva on May 30 at Spoon Food Hall.
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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