News Links

Online news articles and reports about some of the featured folk or just generally of interest! All links have also been tweeted (or recommended via twitter/comments) 'cause I'm that modern these days! Suggestions welcome!

'STEM - Minority Report' (TES Connect)

'If it wasn't for Hedy Lamarr we wouldn't have Wi-Fi' (The Guardian)

'Hollywood star whose invention paved the way to Wi-Fi' (New Scientist)

'Female Pilots: A Slow Take-off' (The Guardian)

'Valentina Tereshkova, 76, first woman in space, seeks one-way ticket to Mars' (The Guardian)

'Maxine Peake celebrates unsung sporting hero Beryl Burton' (BBC News)

'Stephanie L. Kwolek, Inventor of Kevlar, Is Dead at 90' (New York Times)

'Could you name more than one female scientist?' (The Independent) 

'Everyday sexism: how Susanna Reid came under fire for having a desk' (The Guardian) 

National Women in Engineering Day event in local news! 'Southampton university students challenge youngsters at science event' (The Daily Echo)

'Bring female artists out of storage' (The Guardian)

'Powerful Ad Shows What A Little Girl Hears When You Tell Her She's Pretty' (Huffington Post)

'Women scientists take to their soapboxes on London's South Bank' (The Guardian)

Maryam Mirzakhani - 'Iranian woman wins maths' top prize, the Fields medal' (New Scientist)

Grace Scurr - 'A decade since its heyday and 75 years since its creation, can Filofax keep up with the digital diary revolution' (The Independent)

'The Father of 26 Children who's helping to preach birth control' (BBC)

'Emma Watson? Jennifer Lawrence? These aren't the feminists you're looking for' (The Guardian)

'Wonder Women: busting stereotypes across the world' (BBC)

'Did you know the lead engineer of the Brooklyn Bridge was a women?' (Design News)

'England women’s coach Mark Sampson wants team to feed off Wembley crowd' (The Guardian)

'Fara Williams: 'I had football. A lot of homeless girls had nothing' (The Guardian)

'Nature and sex redefiend - we have never been binary' (The Guardian)

'How many girls mask autism spectrum disorder, like me?' (New Scientist)

'Sweden’s feminist foreign minister has dared to tell the truth about Saudi Arabia. What happens now concerns us all' (The Spectator) 

'General Election 2015 Makes More Woman MPs Than Ever Before' (Huffington Post)

'Why everyone is talking about Amy Schumer' (New Statesman)

'Why That 'Like A Girl' Super Bowl Ad Was So Groundbreaking' (Huffington Post)

''Super Women' Replace Supermodels In Fashion Ads And The Results Are Epic' (Huffington Post)

'CERN Council selects next Director-General: Dr. Fabiola Gianotti' (CERN)

'Girlhood avoids easy answers in its portrayal of growing up in the Paris suburbs' (New Statesman) 

'Sandi Toksvig reveals she quit Radio 4 to set up women's rights political party' (The Guardian)

'What Nobel winner Tim Hunt's sexist outburst actually tells us' (New Scientist)

'Tim Hunt, where’s the science in your prejudice against women?' (The Guardian)