Women 's Agenda

WSJ: Tech Firms Pledge to Hire Alumni From ‘Girls Who Code’ Short but very interesting article from the WSJ blogs about active and effective steps to get more women in STEM The founder of Girls Who Code has taken the next step and started signing up companies to hire the women who have learned valuable technical skills.

CNN: Sheryl Sandberg: Bring back ‘feminist’ and toss out ‘bossy’ Quick piece summarising Sandberg’s speech at Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing.

The Australian: Firms serious on gender diversity, but there’s more to be done Report on the gender balance of corporate boards in Australia.

Washington Post: Nurses, fathers, teachers, mothers.

The Atlantic: The Odds That a Panel Would ‘Randomly’ Be All Men Are Astronomical This is a fabulous interview with mathematician Greg Martin, who has proven that it is a statistical impossibility that all male panels can occur in truly random selection.

The Conversation: Worldwide, climate change is worse news for women  We know women suffer inequitable economic and health outcomes in developing countries.

Pacific Standard: Five Studies: The Price of Emotional Labor This is a great little explainer about emotional labour – the work of having a job where employees are required to display specific emotions toward customers or others.

Uncanny Magazine: Masculinity Is an Anxiety Disorder: Breaking Down the Nerd Box David J.