From bbair at cse.ohio-state.edu Sun Oct 14 16:17:05 2007 From: bbair at cse.ohio-state.edu (Bettina Bair) Date: Sun Oct 14 16:17:40 2007 Subject: [OCWIC] Female academic performance in math, science, engineering In-Reply-To: <3E27DA3F-8B3B-43EC-890A-6FB180F6B264@mac.com> References: <3E27DA3F-8B3B-43EC-890A-6FB180F6B264@mac.com> Message-ID: <5d1a6f030710141317r559e9f40t73641388b516616@mail.gmail.com> Are you feeling outnumbered? Here is an interesting study regarding the impact of gender imbalance on female academic performance in math, science and engineering. Representative quote: "situational cues (i.e. being outnumbered) may contribute to a decrease in women's performance expectations, as well as their actual performance." http://www.psychologicalscience.org/media/releases/2007/murphy.cfm :-) Bettina -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://mail.cse.ohio-state.edu/pipermail/ocwic/attachments/20071014/6042525b/attachment.html From bbair at cse.ohio-state.edu Tue Oct 16 16:35:36 2007 From: bbair at cse.ohio-state.edu (Bettina Bair) Date: Tue Oct 16 16:36:11 2007 Subject: [OCWIC] Grace Hopper Interview w/ David Letterman Message-ID: <5d1a6f030710161335y592b42b2q3f7335fbe03d243d@mail.gmail.com> Tomorrow is the first day of the *Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing Conference* in Orlando, FL (www.gracehopper.org). If you only know about the amazing Grace from books, you should definitely take ten minutes and watch this video from 1986. (in fact, watch it soon, before YouTube removes it!) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=57bfxsiVTd4&NR=1 :-) Bettina -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://mail.cse.ohio-state.edu/pipermail/ocwic/attachments/20071016/113c17a2/attachment.html