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June 11, 2004
Google Anita Borg Memorial Scholarship
"Though women represent nearly half the U.S labor force and more then half of all undergraduates, just 18% of scientists and engineers employed in industry are women and only about 20% of students graduating with majors in engineering, physics, computer science, and similar fields are women." (from Google Blog)
I was always in awe of Anita Borg and her work towards making engineering and computer science female-friendly. Thus, i was super psyched when i found out that Google gave out scholarships to women in tech disciplines in her name. Congratulations to all!
Posted by zephoria at 05:47 PM | Permalink
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Congratulations to all of the recipients!
Posted by: *jade at Jun 12, 2004 8:05:26 PM
http://www.nytimes.com/2004/06/15/science/15muse.html
justs aw this story in the nytimes on donna shirley who used to run NASA's mars program and now runs the SF museum in seattle. here's a snippit:
She led the team that built the Mars Pathfinder spacecraft that deposited the rover Sojourner on Mars in 1997, and was manager of the Mars exploration program from 1994 to 1998. She helped hire more women into NASA; now 10 to 20 percent of the engineers at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory are women, she said.
"I remember one meeting," Ms. Shirley said. "Everything was going so smoothly and all of a sudden we realized it was all women, and it never happened to any of us before. We'd never been in a meeting where there were no men. Times are a-changin'."
Posted by: babel5 at Jun 14, 2004 8:48:44 PM
