Women In Technology - Friday Links - 25/02/2022

Hello everybody,

here is our selection of Friday links!

I hope you will find them interesting!

Today we had a lovely mentoring meeting  https://indico.cern.ch/event/1125831/  and afterwards a virtual coffee session. We are happy that you joined us. 

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/ 

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Of course during these days we can not miss Friday Links on Peace and importance of women in peace. 

What’s missing in peace talks ?

The Female Quotient® on Instagram: “A war in any country could have GLOBAL consequences. Talks and negotiations need to be connected to realities on the ground and must…”

If you haven’t heard of The UN Women for Peace Association, here is their website for you:

https://www.unwomenforpeace.org

Here there is a nice podcast from 4 years ago named No Women No Peace but we think still a valid one: 

https://soundcloud.com/nobelpeacecenter/no-women-no-peace

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Here is a community from R programming ladies that can catch your attention:

https://twitter.com/WeAreRLadies

A recent Washington post article still had to mention that housework isn’t just something women are expected to do at home.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/on-leadership/wp/2014/04/16/sticking-women-with-the-office-housework/

Did you know Turkish is a gender-neutral language like most other Turkic languages ? Nouns have a generic form and this generic form is used for both males and females. For example, doktor (doctor), eczacı (pharmacist), mühendis (engineer) etc. Very few words for person reference contain a clue to the gender of the referred person, such as anne/baba "mother/father", kız/oğlan "girl/boy", hanım/bey "lady/sir". The third person singular pronoun "o" refers to "he", "she" and "it".
^{https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gender_neutrality_in_genderless_languages}

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^{Finally, maybe we all need to try more being like Maria Ressa who won the Nobel peace Prize in 2021.} 

^{https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/peace/2021/ressa/facts/}

We wish you a super peaceful & fun weekend!

Ece 

on behalf of CERN WIT Communications