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%TOC% <img align="right" width="40%" src="%ATTACHURLPATH%/UN_Women_In_Science.jpg" /> ---+ Projects * WomenProgrammersInterviews * CollegeDeGeneveMaturite ---+ Initiatives & Articles * History * [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypatia#Death][Hypatia]], hellenistic times' mathematician. * [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hedy_Lamarr][Hedy Lamarr]], inventor and actress and [[https://www.theguardian.com/film/2018/mar/08/hedy-lamarr-1940s-bombshell-helped-invent-wifi-missile][a movie about her.]] * [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maria_Goeppert_Mayer][Maria Mayer]], theoritical physicist, 1950ies. * [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rosalind_Franklin][Rosalind Franklin]], chemist and X-ray crystallographer whose work was central to the understanding of the molecular structures of DNA, RNA and more. * [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/June_Lindsey][June Lindsey]], physicist, also key to describe the DNA structure. * [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Cartwright][Mary Cartwright]], mathematician, one of the first to study and present already in 1943 what would later become known as chaos theory. * [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marian_Pour-El][Marian Pour-El]] theoretical mathematician, with major contribution in mathematical logic and analysis from the perspective of computability theory. * [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alys_Pearsall_Smith][Alys Smith]] militant for the women's right to vote, active in founding school and nursery for mothers and children and home for political refugees. First wife of the polymath Bertrand Russell, who, influenced by his wife's feminist activism, participated in the demonstrations. He writes in his memoirs about the attackers with sticks and sacks containing rats released against the demonstrating women. Wikipedia doesn't mention all this (as a medium, it remains biased)... * In memory of the [[https://www.14juin.ch/][Women's strike of June 14th]] here is the life of [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emilie_Gourd][Emilie Gourd]] who fought for women's vote. [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Divine_Order][The film "The Divine Order"]] is also very useful to understand the environment we live in. * [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sophie_Germain][Sophie Germain]] 18th century mathematician, self-taught with an important contribution to the Fermat's theorem path to solution. * [[https://blog.sciencemuseum.org.uk/valentina-tereshkova-first-woman-in-space][Valentina Tereshkova, first woman in space]] * Non profit * [[https://twiki.cern.ch/twiki/pub/Edutech/MariaDimouAcademicTraining/EPFL_Women_Day_2020.pdf][EPFL Women's Day 2020]] * [[https://research-repository.st-andrews.ac.uk/handle/10023/16766][View-point about Women at CERN till 2017]] * [[http://diversity.web.cern.ch/][CERN Diversity Office]] * Women In Technology (WIT) at CERN [[http://women-in-technology.web.cern.ch/][site]], [[https://women-in-technology.web.cern.ch/reading][reading]], [[https://twiki.cern.ch/IT/WIT][twiki]] and [[http://indico.cern.ch/category/8115/][events' index]]. * [[https://www.rts.ch/play/radio/versus/audio/lafrique-nouvelle-terre-des-sciences-13-les-defis?id=9530550][Radio programme]] about science in Africa. The _next Einstein will be an african woman._ * Women in Computing [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Women_in_computing][in wikipedia]]. * [[https://twitter.com/search?q=%23IWorkAtCERN][#iworkatcern hashtag]] * [[https://home.cern/about/updates/2017/02/naturally-im-scientist]["Naturally I am a scientist" articles]]. * [[https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLiQYSvB31qUEVV5dRj9Iidw8M1pHJd5_0][CERN computer engineers' interviews 2016]] (not only women). * [[http://www.epflwishfoundation.org/][EPFL WISH]] * [[https://www.internationalwomensday.com/Theme][BeBoldForChange]] * [[https://sciencenode.org/spotlight/isgtw-links-week-women-information-technology.php][2007 article on Women in Computing]] * [[https://sciencenode.org/feature/isgtw-feature-im-being-shadowed-voices-gap.php][2007 article on young girls being shadowed by CERN female engineers]]. * [[https://djangogirls.org/geneva/][djangogirls]] - a volunteer-run organisation teaching women, without prior IT background, to Python & Django tools. * [[https://actu.epfl.ch/news/maryna-viazovska-wins-2018-new-horizons-in-mathe-2/][Maryna Viazovska wins 2018 New Horizons in Mathematics Prize]] * [[http://www.un.org/en/events/women-and-girls-in-science-day/][UN Day of women/girls in science]] * [[https://www.unspecial.org/2017/03/][UN Newsletter March 2017]] * [[http://genderchampions.com/events/breaking-the-cliche-women-in-science-les-femmes-dans-les-sciences-briser-les-cliches][Breaking the cliche]] Women in Sciences. * [[https://indico.cern.ch/event/643306/][Marie Curie's grand-daughter event at CERN]] 2017/06/29 and [[http://home.cern/cern-people/updates/2017/07/day-i-met-marie-curies-granddaughter][related article]]. * [[https://www.unige.ch/rectorat/egalite/evenement/actualites/colloque-woman-and-sciences-30-juin-2017/][University of Geneva event on gender and innovation studies]] 2017/06/30. * [[http://genderedinnovations.stanford.edu/what-is-gendered-innovations.html][Gendered innovations]] Stanford site. * [[https://www.accenture.com/us-en/company-diversity][Watch the video]] * [[http://ombuds.web.cern.ch/blog/2017/09/unearned-advantage][Unearned advantage]] * [[https://medium.com/thinking-is-hard/4-conundrums-of-intelligence-2ab78d90740f][Cognitive bias cheat sheet]] * [[https://ghc.anitab.org/calendar/2017-grace-hopper-celebration-women-computing/][2017 Grace Hopper Celebration of the Anita B. organisation]]. * [[https://sisterswithtransistors.com][Women composers of electronic music]]. * [[https://catalogue-bm.geneve.ch/notice?id=h%3A%3Ad106dfb9-934b-4eb9-9745-95884e7e0f6b][Blog on women composers]] * Business * [[http://switzerland.girlsintech.org/][Girls in tech Switzerland]] * [[http://genderchampions.com/][UN Gender Champions]] * [[http://www.gender-summit.eu/][EU Gender summit]] * [[http://www.stemedcoalition.org/][STEM Coalition]] * [[http://www.cwf.ch/][Career Women's Forum]] * [[http://fortune.com/2015/03/26/report-the-number-of-women-entering-computing-took-a-nosedive/][Fortune article on women entering computing]] * [[http://lesclesdedemain.lemonde.fr/partners/ibm-ClesDeDemain/cacheDirectory/newsletters/2017-03-16_466.html][IBM newsletter on diversity March 2017]] * [[http://money.cnn.com/2017/02/28/technology/girls-math-science-engineering/][CNN article on gender equality February 2017]] * [[https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2017/04/why-is-silicon-valley-so-awful-to-women/517788/?utm_source=mitfb][The Atlantic Magazine Spring 2017 issue]] * [[http://www.sciencemag.org/news/2017/03/meet-physics-girl-youtuber-who-makes-living-explaining-science][Physics girl youtuber]] making a living by explaining science. * [[https://www.codedoc.co/]["Code: debugging the Gender Gap"]] documentary. -- Main.MariaDimou - 2017-02-21
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