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STEM Woman in the White House
You may have heard that +Megan Smith former Vice President of +Google X is now the Chief Technology Officer for +The White House. Smith has both a Bachelor and a Masters degree in Mechanical Engineering from MIT, she serves on the MIT Board, and she is also a successful entrepreneur. She has an outstanding commitment to gender diversity and she is one of the few big-name leaders in STEM who is visible in her work with Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, and Queer (LGBTQ) communities.
Smith's Tech Leadership
Smith joined Google in 2003 where she first ran Google's philanthropic organisation, Google.org. Smith has been a champion of STEM women issues, including through the Women Techmakers initiative run by +Google Developers, which supports women through visibility, resources and community support.
More recently Smith oversaw Google's "moonshot" projects, which encompasses cutting edge technology such as the acquisitions that would lead to Google Maps and Google Earth, as well as the development of self-driving cars in Google's "secret" projects team, GoogleX. Google's co-founder +Sergey Brin wished Smith well in her new role, noting that “Megan has inspired so many people through her commitment to inclusion and innovation.”
Shaping the Future of Tech
Smith's new role will be to provide technology advice to the American Government. President Obama said of Smith's appointment:
"Megan has spent her career leading talented teams and taking cutting-edge technology and innovation initiatives from concept to design to deployment. I am confident that in her new role as America’s Chief Technology Officer, she will put her long record of leadership and exceptional skills to work on behalf of the American people." (http://goo.gl/L3IaAf)
Gender & Sexual Diversity
At the 2014 Women Techmakers Summit in May, Smith notes, "In tech we still have to work on our visibility." She cites various women leaders who shaped the modern computer and NASA programs, but are not widely known. Smith notes that even the Google Doodle did not feature a woman for the first seven years.
Lesbian and queer publication +Autostraddle.com called Smith a "Lesbian Badass" and "the futuristic lesbian MacGuyver." They note that Smith's appointment is important both to gender diversity and inclusion of lesbian women in tech. Most LGBTQ STEM events are still largely directed by and geared towards gay men:
"Girls who are entering sixth grade now will grow up in a world where the person directing The United States technology policies and big decisions is a female person. That’s massive! And lesbians in the tech field have previously felt this weird sense of isolation... It’s just awesome to be able to point at a very visible, recognizable and powerful government position that is based on having a massive amount of technology knowledge and say “LOOK WE EXIST LOOK LOOK LOOK.” (http://goo.gl/yQkkFV)
For a longer post with further information and links, head to my blog: http://goo.gl/653PFQ
Credits & Learn More
* Image source: Women Techmakers Summit 2014 http://youtu.be/mfMeXnv_NOE Gif by Zuleyka Zevallos
* Learn more about some of the women Smith mentions and others on +STEM Women on G+. Start with our #stemheroines posts which features women STEM pioneers, or check out our HOAs with contemporary women in STEM.
#stemwomen #megansmith #womentechmakers #engineering #women #stem #stemeducation #science #technology #lgbtq #sociology
You may have heard that +Megan Smith former Vice President of +Google X is now the Chief Technology Officer for +The White House. Smith has both a Bachelor and a Masters degree in Mechanical Engineering from MIT, she serves on the MIT Board, and she is also a successful entrepreneur. She has an outstanding commitment to gender diversity and she is one of the few big-name leaders in STEM who is visible in her work with Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, and Queer (LGBTQ) communities.
Smith's Tech Leadership
Smith joined Google in 2003 where she first ran Google's philanthropic organisation, Google.org. Smith has been a champion of STEM women issues, including through the Women Techmakers initiative run by +Google Developers, which supports women through visibility, resources and community support.
More recently Smith oversaw Google's "moonshot" projects, which encompasses cutting edge technology such as the acquisitions that would lead to Google Maps and Google Earth, as well as the development of self-driving cars in Google's "secret" projects team, GoogleX. Google's co-founder +Sergey Brin wished Smith well in her new role, noting that “Megan has inspired so many people through her commitment to inclusion and innovation.”
Shaping the Future of Tech
Smith's new role will be to provide technology advice to the American Government. President Obama said of Smith's appointment:
"Megan has spent her career leading talented teams and taking cutting-edge technology and innovation initiatives from concept to design to deployment. I am confident that in her new role as America’s Chief Technology Officer, she will put her long record of leadership and exceptional skills to work on behalf of the American people." (http://goo.gl/L3IaAf)
Gender & Sexual Diversity
At the 2014 Women Techmakers Summit in May, Smith notes, "In tech we still have to work on our visibility." She cites various women leaders who shaped the modern computer and NASA programs, but are not widely known. Smith notes that even the Google Doodle did not feature a woman for the first seven years.
Lesbian and queer publication +Autostraddle.com called Smith a "Lesbian Badass" and "the futuristic lesbian MacGuyver." They note that Smith's appointment is important both to gender diversity and inclusion of lesbian women in tech. Most LGBTQ STEM events are still largely directed by and geared towards gay men:
"Girls who are entering sixth grade now will grow up in a world where the person directing The United States technology policies and big decisions is a female person. That’s massive! And lesbians in the tech field have previously felt this weird sense of isolation... It’s just awesome to be able to point at a very visible, recognizable and powerful government position that is based on having a massive amount of technology knowledge and say “LOOK WE EXIST LOOK LOOK LOOK.” (http://goo.gl/yQkkFV)
For a longer post with further information and links, head to my blog: http://goo.gl/653PFQ
Credits & Learn More
* Image source: Women Techmakers Summit 2014 http://youtu.be/mfMeXnv_NOE Gif by Zuleyka Zevallos
* Learn more about some of the women Smith mentions and others on +STEM Women on G+. Start with our #stemheroines posts which features women STEM pioneers, or check out our HOAs with contemporary women in STEM.
#stemwomen #megansmith #womentechmakers #engineering #women #stem #stemeducation #science #technology #lgbtq #sociology
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Newly Updated! 31+ STEM Books to Inspire Girls
https://www.pragmaticmom.com/2017/08/stem-books-to-inspire-girls/
#STEM #STEMWomen #ReadYourWorld #KidLit
https://www.pragmaticmom.com/2017/08/stem-books-to-inspire-girls/
#STEM #STEMWomen #ReadYourWorld #KidLit
31+ STEM Books to Inspire Girls
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Born this day in 1933: Elinor Ostrom, the first and only woman to be awarded the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences - after previously not having been admitted to the PhD programme due to her gender.
#todaysmemory #todayinhistory #TodayInWomensHistory #stemwomen
#todaysmemory #todayinhistory #TodayInWomensHistory #stemwomen
Born this day: Elinor Ostrom
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Sticking up for STEM Women
Our founder, Dr +Buddhini Samarasinghe spoke with +UCL Researchers about the history of our community:
"Back in 2012, I think it was on International Women’s Day, someone on Facebook shared a list of female scientists whom you may or may not have heard of. Obviously Marie Curie was in it, and there were lots of other black and white photos of women who were mostly already dead. Great that such a list is being shared, but I figured I should put together a list of more current female scientists to whom people could better relate.
"I used +Google+ which was pretty new at that time and had lots of female engineers and scientists who were posting publicly about their work. So I started compiling a list of their names and ‘shared’ them around, making a group of strong female role models who could inspire people. Off the back of that, I teamed up with two other female researchers and launched a website to celebrate females in STEM, and to comment on the current issues they face."
Learn more about our origins and why we fight for women in STEM, from the microaggressions of everyday sexism, which build up over time, to systemic inequality across institutions.
Read more: http://blogs.ucl.ac.uk/ucl-researchers/2015/05/22/sticking-up-for-stem-women/
Original image Maia Weinstock, CC 2.0: https://goo.gl/dOiZ1p Adapted by STEM Women. #stemwomen #womeninstem
Our founder, Dr +Buddhini Samarasinghe spoke with +UCL Researchers about the history of our community:
"Back in 2012, I think it was on International Women’s Day, someone on Facebook shared a list of female scientists whom you may or may not have heard of. Obviously Marie Curie was in it, and there were lots of other black and white photos of women who were mostly already dead. Great that such a list is being shared, but I figured I should put together a list of more current female scientists to whom people could better relate.
"I used +Google+ which was pretty new at that time and had lots of female engineers and scientists who were posting publicly about their work. So I started compiling a list of their names and ‘shared’ them around, making a group of strong female role models who could inspire people. Off the back of that, I teamed up with two other female researchers and launched a website to celebrate females in STEM, and to comment on the current issues they face."
Learn more about our origins and why we fight for women in STEM, from the microaggressions of everyday sexism, which build up over time, to systemic inequality across institutions.
Read more: http://blogs.ucl.ac.uk/ucl-researchers/2015/05/22/sticking-up-for-stem-women/
Original image Maia Weinstock, CC 2.0: https://goo.gl/dOiZ1p Adapted by STEM Women. #stemwomen #womeninstem
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To attract more women to #STEM careers, the focus should shift from coding to problem-solving.
Read our latest blog post on women in computer science. http://ow.ly/OI5d30l4jHQ #STEMWomen #WomeninComputerScience #BBKBusiness
Read our latest blog post on women in computer science. http://ow.ly/OI5d30l4jHQ #STEMWomen #WomeninComputerScience #BBKBusiness
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#STEMWomen can you be a #scientist and still looking good?Is there a myth around women femininity and their actual ability to do science?
Really? You don’t look like a scientist.
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