By Maggie Koerth-Baker, Boing Boing
Xeni posted last week about the EU’s rather ridiculous “Science: It’s a Girl Thing!” video, which was aimed at recruiting girls to science careers and, instead, hit enough vacuous stereotypes of femininity that it ended up seeming like a parody of itself. This seems like a nice moment to note that the Txchnologist website is currently posting articles in the theme of “Women in Science and Technology”. One of those pieces is an interview with Margo Seltzer, an actual female scientist. Dr. Seltzer teaches computer science at Harvard University’s School of Engineering and Applied Sciences. Most science and technology professions have a hard time attracting and retaining women, and computer science is no exception. Only a quarter of employed computer scientists are women. Txchnologist asked Seltzer about her perspective on the problem, and what steps she thinks might help make computer science more female-friendly.
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