Women In Technology - Friday Links - 14/11/2025

Dear WIT@CERN community,

Weekend mode: on! Here’s a selection of reads for your weekend reading. Enjoy!  🌺 📖

·                     Breaking barriers: ten essential steps to achieve gender equality in academia through scientific societies. This study assesses gender representation and gender-equity initiatives in freshwater societies, offering ten practical actions and highlighting obstacles. It calls on scientific societies to take an active role in closing the gender gap in STEM. Read more

·                     Sexual violence against sexual minority women in STEM: Compound backlash. Learn more

·                     Barbara Maria Latacz from CERN has been selected as one of the winners of the Boeing Quantum Creators Prize 2025, recognising early-career researchers pushing quantum science in new directions. Explore more

·                     Mary Clem: Transforming Computational Accuracy. Mary Clem was a pioneering American mathematician and early “human computer” whose sharp intuition transformed how complex calculations were checked. At Iowa State, she invented the elegant “zero-check” method, a clever way to spot errors long before digital computers took over.  Read more 

·                     Infinite Women is a growing online encyclopaedia celebrating the achievements and stories of women past and present. Explore inspiring profiles and learn more here.

·                     Gender and the Dynamics of Economics Seminars. This study finds that women presenting in economics seminars receive more — and more hostile — questions than men, even after controlling for field and format. These dynamics may contribute to the persistent gender gap in the profession. Learn more 

Upcoming events

👉 Don’t miss the Campagne 25 novembre – Genève 2025, a series of events raising awareness about gender-based violence. More info

📸 Resilience: Turning Sadness into Joy, Weakness into Strength, a photo exhibition by the CERN colleague Andrea Musso, on display 3–28 November in the Main Building. Join his presentation on 17 November in the Council Chamber (503/1-001) from 12:30 to 14:00, to discover the stories behind the images. Indico

📽️ Screening & Roundtable – “La violence de genre aujourd'hui : arrêt sur image”, as part of the November 25 Campaign in Geneva, on 17 November 2025.  

The screening of the film “Riccy” by Mildred Tejada will be followed by a panel discussion on gender violence at the Cinémas du Grütli. Info

Wishing you all a relaxing weekend,
Emanuela on behalf of WIT Communications