Ira Pramanick (Senior Staff Engineer, in Sun’s Software Systems group)
is invited to be the Keynote Speaker at the Women in Tech conference
co-sponsored by the William Jewell College
(Liberty, MO) and the Girl Scouts next month. Ira and I recently discussed some
of the reading which she would recommend. Here were my top book picks :
- Unlocking the Clubhouse: Women in Computing
by Jane Margolis and Allan Fisher
Publisher: The MIT Press; Reprint edition (April 1, 2003)
ISBN-10: 0262632691
“Convinced that ‘women must know more than how to use technology; they must know how to design and create it,’ Jane Margolis, a social scientist, and Allan Fisher, a computer scientist and college dean, devised a four-year study (involving some 230 interviews) at Carnegie Mellon School of Computer Science. They found that the seven percent of female undergraduates at the college started out with as much excitement and talent as their male counterparts, but often wilted early on, perceiving that male students had come to college far better prepared than they had.” (text from
amazon.com review) - Changing Our World: True Stories of Women Engineers
by Sybil E. Hatch
Publisher: American Society of Civil Engineers (February 20, 2006)
ISBN-10: 0784408416
“Through real-life stories, the full-color, 256-page Changing Our World: True Stories of Women Engineers celebrates the contributions of women engineers to every aspect of modern life. Explore the lives and careers of hundreds of women engineers of all ages and backgrounds – extraordinary women who serve as role models to tell the untold story of engineering.” (text from
amazon.com review) - She’s Such a Geek: Women Write About Science, Technology,
and Other Nerdy Stuff
by Annalee Newitz and Charlie Anders
Publisher: Seal Press (October 23, 2006)
ISBN-10: 1580051901
“She’s Such a Geek is a groundbreaking anthology that celebrates women who have flourished in the male-dominated realms of technical and cultural arcana.
Editors Annalee Newitz and Charlie Anders bring together a diverse range of critical and personal essays about the meaning of female nerdhood by women who are in love with genomics, obsessed with blogging, learned about sex from Dungeons and Dragons, and aren’t afraid to match wits with men or computers.” (text from
amazon.com review)
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