Women at the Helm
Project Managers Winters, Dodd lead New Horizons and Voyager – Humankind’s Two Most Distant Missions These missions are not only setting records for distant exploration; both have female project managers…. Read more »
Category: Herstory
The nation-builders we constantly fail to recognise
If it’s late enough in summer that we’ve grown exhausted of complaining about the weather, it must be time to have a few too many beers and start punching We… Read more »
From Chinese spies to award-winning geologists, we’re making women visible on Wikipedia
Just 3,541 Wikipedia editors are considered “very active”, and very few of them are female. But this can change. Source: From Chinese spies to award-winning geologists, we’re making women visible on… Read more »
5 Indigenous women who didn’t get the credit
Natalie Cromb writes for NITV: It is no secret where we —Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander women— are placed on the scale of relevance and importance in this country. We… Read more »
Spanish academic gets €1.5m EU grant to rescue ‘women’s writing’
A Spanish academic has embarked on a five-year quest to rescue the works of female writers from the margins of European thought and give them the recognition they have been… Read more »
A Computer of One’s Own
Pioneers of the Computing Age. Source: A Computer of One’s Own – Medium
Evelyn Berezin, 93, Dies; Built the First True Word Processor
Evelyn Berezin, a computer pioneer who emancipated many a frazzled secretary from the shackles of the typewriter nearly a half-century ago by building and marketing the first computerized word processor,… Read more »
The Season of the Witch – Max Dashu On Why We Sexualize, Trivialize, and Fear the Witch
There’s a large and complex cultural history about this. We are at the end of a long process of demonization of witches. Most people have heard of the witch hunts,… Read more »
Misogynist stereotyping in history, Part I: Those prudish Victorian women
culturallyboundgender writes: Indeed, the prudishness of the Victorian woman is even supposed to reflect on modern political struggles: she is invoked as a grim-faced, disapproving specter of the past, whose… Read more »
The Gaslighting of American Women
Jessica Valenti for Medium writes: What we are witnessing right now through the response to Kavanaugh — and the slow-roll comeback of various men held to account by #MeToo — is a large-scale dismissal… Read more »