Research Suggests Students Are Biased Against Female Lecturers – The Economist

In a study conducted by the Journal of the European Economic Association, the researchers evaluated male and female teachers using the same content and teaching the same course. After four years of data collecting from 2009 to 2013, the study showed that students, male and female, ranked women teachers on average thirty-five points below their […]

Programmed Inequality – The MIT Press

Programmed Inequality is a book written by Marie Hicks on how women in computing were gradually pushed out of the industry. The book discusses the economic consequences for the UK of their disappearance and establishes connections with the United State Read more here

CODE: Debugging the Gender Gap

The movie Code was screened in the Student Center Theater at Georgia Tech. The screening had a grea turn out. This documentary exposes the situation of American female and minority software engineers and explores the reasons for this gender gap and digital divide. A lively discussion led by Mark Guzdial and Barbara Ericson ended the […]

Melinda Gates Has a New Mission: Women in Tech

An interview with Melinda Gates on her work around bringing more women into tech and helping them to stay in the field. This is motivated by personal reasons of seeing a current crisis of even less women than when she graduated 30 years ago. Find out more at https://backchannel.com/melinda-gates-has-a-new-mission-women-in-tech-8eb706d0a903#.smna1x7go