In college I got funding from SWE to put up posters showing senior successful technical women because I didn't know what that "looked" like.
Role models. (Are important, yes, but, IMO not likely a huge %age of the solution)https://twitter.com/rob_pike/status/835549253195841536 …
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After searching for images (pre-Pinterest!) I mostly just identified Barbara Liskov and was upset not to be able to find many more/others.
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One of my dreams at the time was that if I had a gajillion $$ I would fund movies showing awesome women doing cool stuff to show this
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(like Megan Ellison now does through Annapurna Pictures!)
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I feel like I'm also often sending around this interview with Carol Greider, Nobel Prize winner —http://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/13/science/13conv.html …
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doing your own thing > hearing someone brag about how they did their own thing
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