Annalee Newitz gave a talk called "Revenge of the Female Nerds" at the 23rd annual Chaos Communication Congress in Berlin (see  https://events.ccc.de/congress/2006/Home ). It was a much-updated and more thoroughly-researched version of the talk she gave last year at Harvard with the same title. Basically it's about the social barriers women have to surmount to become scientists and engineers - and how we can blow those barriers to bits. She discussed her recent book, She's Such a Geek, as well as a study she is completing for the National Academy of Sciences on how the media covers scientific studies about gender issues.

more:  http://www.shessuchageek.com


 http://www.techsploitation.com

see also:  http://www.haecksen.org

Wikipedia and women:  http://www.alternet.org/columnists/story/45730/