Women In Technology - Friday Links - 26/09/2025
Dear WIT@CERN community,
before stepping into the weekend, here’s a selection of reads for you to dive into. Enjoy! 🌻📖
· Learn to Live Again: A Pilot Study to Support Women Experiencing Domestic Violence. A new Australian study reveals how an 8-week group therapy program called "Learn to Live Again" is transforming lives for domestic violence survivors through peer support and innovative trauma recovery techniques. Learn more
- ‘You can yodel and don’t have to be conservative’: the Swiss feminist choir rewriting traditional songs. Echo vom Eierstock (“echo from the ovary”) is Switzerland’s first feminist yodelling choir, founded in 2022 to rewrite traditional Alpine folk songs that portray women in passive or stereotypical roles, while keeping the musical style intact. Read more
· Two-Time Mary Kay Young Women in STEM Grant Recipient Shares Impact of Award on International Competition Stage and Career Path. Explore more
· How style shaped the feminist movement. Fashion has expressed and advanced feminist activism, from suffragists to modern designers. Learn more
· Beijing 1995: Three Decades of Advancing Women’s Rights. Thirty years ago, in September 1995, the Fourth World Conference on Women in Beijing launched the landmark Beijing Declaration for women’s rights. UN has created a timeline document to learn from the past and look to the future. Read more
· Hansa Jivraj Mehta: Pioneer for Women’s Rights and Global Equality. Hansa Mehta, one of the few women framers of the Indian Constitution, played a significant role in ensuring that Article 1 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights was made inclusive and is credited to changing the phrase “All men are born free and equal” to “All human beings are born free and equal”. Learn more
For a deeper look into the history of the UN World Conferences on Women, visit Where the Future Was Built .
- Beyond the Hourly Wage: Unpacking the Gender Pay Gap. Watch Video
Upcoming event
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Wishing you all a wonderful and relaxing weekend,
Emanuela on behalf of WIT Communications