An ode to better half-International Women’s Day 2016
Today is the International Women’s day.So visit our site and celebrate.Start with title song
Watch this small tribute women’s day song
1.Have you ever felt like using electronic devices/IC’s the way children play with blocks.Somebody has thought about it and done it also. Ayah Bdeir is the founder and CEO of littleBits, an open source library of modular electronics that snap together with magnets.She earned a Masters of Science degree from the MIT Media Lab and undergraduate degrees in Computer Engineering and Sociology from the American University of Beirut.In September 2011, Bdeir started littleBits Electronics, a startup with the goal to “put the power of electronics in the hands of everyone, and to break down complex technologies so that anyone can build, prototype, and invent.” The company is based in New York.Bdeir is considered a leader in the Maker and Internet of Things movements.Let us hear straight from horse’s mouth
2.We live in era where at least we are talking of equality of genders.Still we have a very little number of women leaders.Why? What are the challenges.Who else can say it straight from heart better than Sheryl Kara Sandberg , Chief Operating Officer of Facebook.So let us listen to her ted talk Why we have too few women leaders
3.Math isn’t just for boys
Research shows that children express the stereotype that “math is for boys, not for girls” as early as second grade, and girls are less likely than boys to pursue math in higher education or careers. We need to change that, and Jen Oxley is using her animated TV show to start changing the narrative. She created Peg+Cat, a show with a strong female lead centered around math, but targeted at both girls and boys.
Jennifer Oxley was born in Hollywood, California and caught the film making bug early – she made her first film at the age of seven. Since then she has directed fifteen short films for Sesame Street, as well as the award-winning adaptation of Spike Lee and Tanya Lewis Lee’s children’s book, Please, Baby, Please. Her latest film, The Music Box, was acquired by The Museum of Modern Art for their permanent children’s film collection.Just watch her Changing the gender narrative with animation
4. Now let us take quiz on international women’s day(it is a swf file & you need a swf player to run the quiz.)download it here and run
Comments Category: Unsung Women of Science
Surprised to know about Anandibai Joshi…..just googled it lot more and it says that she was motivated to study medicine because of this inspiration…as she wrote a letter to Women’s Medical College of Pennsylvania “determination which has brought me to your country against the combined opposition of my friends and caste ought to go a long way towards helping me to carry out the purpose for which I came, i.e. is to render to my poor suffering country women the true medical aid they so sadly stand in need of and which they would rather die than accept at the hands of a male physician. The voice of humanity is with me and I must not fail. My soul is moved to help the many who cannot help themselves”…….
Though she could not convert her degree into a successful profession due to her untimely death, Anandibai surely left a mark on India’s heart and contributed to a much better, and bolder, India.
Brilliant speech by Sheryl Sandberg. How positively she had highlighted the lack of women workforce in Corporate sectors without blaming men( as most of woman on this occasion would like to do)…..
She has rightly mentioned that women are responsible for these dropouts from the workplace because they can not represent themselves as confidently as they should do and I am totally agree with that…
One more thing that annoys me that we as a Society put tags on the basis of different abilities they can perform……My take on that is that we categorize them as good housewives but they are not born expert in that but they are trained to that for centuries….
Similarly any work they can perform with the same proficiency as with any human can, provided we give chance and support them in training….