Parents, science and girls

Science: It’s a Girl Thing! is using the power of social media to connect with parents and educators about how to foster girls’ interest in science and technology, and why that is important.
Funded by the National Science Foundation, the program offers Web-based and easy-to-use resources for conducting science activities at home. It builds on everyday [...]

Caster Semenya

I surely don’t know whether Caster Semenya is biologically a male or female,whether she is intersexed or genetically other than a traditional XX. But, I am certain that she identifies as a girl and has been raised by her family as a girl. I cannot imagine how difficult it would be to be a teenager and [...]

Why don’t more women bike?

In 1896, Susan B. Anthony said she thought bicycling did more to emancipate women than anything else in the world. Now bloggers have taken up her cry.
It seems an effort to get more women biking — and thus narrow the gender biking gap — is heating up the blogosphere. Discussion centers on everything from gender-based biking statistics to [...]

Get smart: Get trained to help women negotiate salary

As a women’s studies instructor, one thing that has surprised me is that young women don’t know how to negotiate salary when they are offered a job.  In fact, the idea of negotiating either doesn’t occur to them or it scares them to death.
That’s why I’m going to $tart $mart Training on Saturday afternoon at [...]

This week’s news from Women’s Media Center

Where Are The Women In Tech And Social Media?
 8/11/09
Fast Company: When you look around the room at a tech or social media conference what do you see? Are the panels filled with a diverse group of tech and social media experts? Chances are they are probably filled with white men…Women make up approximately 50% [...]

One wise Latina woman on her way to Supreme Court

When Sonia Sotomayor is sworn in Saturday, she will become the third woman Supreme Court justice and the first Latina.
She will also make history in another way. The ceremony itself will be the first open to TV cameras in the court’s history, according to an Associated Press story.
Sotomayor was confirmed by a 68-31 Senate vote Thursday. Most [...]

Todays news links from the Women’s Media Center

Freed Journalists Home In U.S. After N. Korea Pardon
8/5/09
AP via NPR: Two American journalists freed by North Korea returned home to the United States on Wednesday for a jubilant, emotional reunion with family members and friends they hadn’t seen in nearly five months.
Governor Cuts Program That Aids Battered Women
8/4/09
San Francisco Chronicle: The swipe of Gov. [...]

Women invent

Did you know? Bulletproof vests, fire escapes, windshield wipers and laser printers were all invented by women.  This is in addition to the circular saw.
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