Women In Technology - Friday Links - 18/02/2022
Hello everybody,
here is our selection of Friday links!
I hope you will find them interesting!
First of all, please do not forget the WIT Community Annual Review + Activity Survey.
Share your opinion of WIT activities with us by completing the following survey: https://cda-surveys.web.cern.ch/form/wit-community-survey-2022
Join us for a review of the activities organised by the WIT Community during 2021, and learn more about our plans for 2022. March 7 12:30 – 13:30 CET: https://indico.cern.ch/event/1122824/
Also please take note of the WIT Mentoring 2022 Information Meeting that takes place on the 25th of February from 15:00 to 16:00 (CERN time) https://indico.cern.ch/event/1125831/.
If you fancy it, you can join our WIT Virtual coffee next Friday the 25th of February from 16:00 to 17:00
https://indico.cern.ch/event/1130974/
One week ago we celebrated the International Day of Women and Girls in STEM. We have happily seen that many communities at CERN and outside CERN have engaged in the celebration of this day and you will find one example below.
The EIROForum Diversity Working Group has invited children to make drawings, representing each organisation, with the theme “Women in Science”. One drawing per organisation has been selected to form part of this beautiful collage: 11 Feb EIROForum drawing collage
In particular, the wonderful CERN drawing is by 11 year old Camilla Both, daughter of HR Legal Adviser Kathinka Hewitt. Camilla’s is the one on the top row: the woman observing the galaxy at night.
#NoMoreMatildas is a campaign of AMIT (Association of Women Researchers and Technologists) that intends to denounce the consequences of the Matilda Effect (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matilda_effect). An idea of Gettingbetter with the collaboration of Dospassos that aims to recover scientific role models to arouse interest in science. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fGiyCl8aZW0
“Smithsonian to show 120 orange statues of female scientists” https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/smithsonian-to-show-120-orange-statues-of-female-scientists/2022/02/11/1c884cf6-8b5d-11ec-838f-0cfdf69cce3c_story.html
The BBC has prepared the list of 100 inspiring and influential women from around the world in 2021.
We are happy to see that 22 of them are involved in Science and Health.
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-59514598
We are convinced that women are as inspiring and as influential as men but there is still a lot of work to do. A new study published on Health Affair in December 2021 shows that Female Physicians Earn An Estimated $2 Million Less Than Male Physicians Over A Simulated 40-Year Career https://www.healthaffairs.org/doi/abs/10.1377/hlthaff.2021.00461?utm_medium=press&utm_source=mediaadvisory&utm_campaign=december2021issue&utm_content=whaley
Gender neutral language is always a hot topic to talk about.
While there are countries in which steps forward are taken to ensure gender neutral language, like Norway, that is planning to introduce a gender neutral pronoun in the dictionary https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/feb/02/new-gender-neutral-pronoun-norwegian-dictionaries-hen-official-language
there are still others (like France) in which the idea faces opposition (luckily not from everyone)
https://dictionnaire.lerobert.com/definition/iel
Here are some events organised by the CERN Alumni Relations team that might be of your interest:
• Virtual Company Showroom with newcleo on 18 February: https://alumni.cern/events/78591
• Partner event about entrepreneurship in collaboration with On Deck on 24 February: https://alumni.cern/events/77802
• News from the Lab about robotics with Lorenzo Teofili on 24 February: https://alumni.cern/events/77555
• Moving Out of Academia to Data Science and Engineering on 11 March: https://alumni.cern/events/77302
In addition:
CERN is participating in the upcoming Impactpool virtual career fair for Women in STEM on Tuesday 22 March, check it out if you are interested https://virtualcareerfairs.impactpool.org/event/5717
We conclude on a topic that makes us all very sad.
6th of February is marked as the International day of Zero Tolerance for Female Mutilation.
Two new tools have been launched by WHO and HRP to help healthcare providers give the best quality care to girls and women who have been subjected to FGM – and to also support global efforts to end this harmful practice and human rights violation.
And finally, do you think that finding women in technology should be this hard?
https://www.unwomen.org/en/digital-library/multimedia/2017/3/illustration-finding-her-campaign
We wish you a super fun weekend!
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