Quote

" I'm a hungry woman...
...But don't you dare forget
You gotta feed my head too
"

Hungry Woman Blues II, Gaye Adegbalola

Non-News Links

Other things and places of interest, not in the news! Recommends always welcome and all links will be twitterified.

Organisations and Projects


WISE (Women Into Science and Engineering)

'Womensphere: The Nuclei Media Project'

Little Miss Geek

Soapbox Science

UN Women 'He for She' campaign

The Fawcett Society and their 'This Is What A Feminist Looks Like' campaign

Global Fund for Women: 'Ignite'

The Women's Equality Party (UK)

FIFA Live Your Goals

Events

International Women's Day - 8th March

University of Southampton International Women's Week - 9th to 13th March 

National Women in Engineering Day - 23rd June

UN - Rural Women's Day - 15th October


Thoughts and Blogs/Non-news Articles


'In Practice: Leaning In' (Tessa Harrison, Leadership Foundation)

'Ladies Last: 8 Inventions by Women that Dudes Got Credit For' (Mother Jones)

'How to save Science: Education and the Gender Gap, and the next generation of creative thinkers' (Brain Pickings)

'Looking for the Women in the WWW' (LinkedIn)

'Tabloid headlines without the sexism' (Death and Taxes)

'Good Minds Suggest—Deborah Harkness's Favorite Books with Brainy Heroines' (Goodreads)

'Female Poets of the First World War' (Lucy)

'Serbia and Kosovo - businesswomen as drivers of change' (Transconflict)

“I don’t think a guy would have made ‘Tampon Run’”: Salon talks with gaming girl wonders Andy Gonzalez & Sophie Houser (Salon)

'Fabiola Gianotti, the Discoverer' - Runner-Up, Time Person of the Year 2013 (Time)

'Zen and the art of coding' (Marketplace)

'Communication: A better class of heckle' (Nature)

'Maria Merian’s Butterflies: The Illustrated Story of How a 17th-Century Woman Forever Changed the Course of Science Through Art' (Brain Pickings) 

'What Girls Are Good For: 20-Year-Old Nellie Bly’s 1885 Response to a Patronizing Chauvinist' (Brain Pickings)

'Women Scientists Tweet “Sexy” Work Pics In Response To Male Nobel Laureate’s Sexist Comments' (boredpanda) 

'Sweating the small stuff: how the #ThisGirlCan campaign is dividing women' (Content is Queen) 

'Women and the bicycle' (bikecation)

'Celebrating National Women in Engineering Day and the Importance of Engineering Internships' (Olivia Takes Courage)

'How much to you know about women in engineering? - quiz' (Big Bang Fair, The Guardian) 

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