What to do on International Women’s Day
March 8 is Internation Women’s Day! And there’s lots to do for us Girl Geeks. Check out these things you can do.
March 8 is Internation Women’s Day! And there’s lots to do for us Girl Geeks. Check out these things you can do.
Breaking through glass ceilings seems to be the operative term, post-US elections. Read about these women that broke them.
So, what interesting stuff has been published this week on Women in STEM? Well, lots! There’s a trend to be spotted in many of these articles, as previous posts have indicated already. Too many men working in the field is off-putting. Role models wanted! That is no surprise, really, is it? But still, it’s interesting…
If you’re looking or something to do this week, go see a movie. Not just any movie, and why not see two, or three? The Dutch Science Film Festival, Inscience, is on from November 2nd until November 6th in Nijmegen!
This past week was all about payment gaps between men and women. And wonderful news of a movie about some very smart ladies. And a professor puts in her two cents on why diversity in engineering matters.
There’s a lot to do about ‘us women’ in the STEM (Science, Tech, Engineering and Mathematics) area. We at Girl Geek Dinner NL will try to keep you in the loop on this and we will try it on a weekly basis too! So read on if you want to know what’s been happening this…
Ada Lovelace Day was founded in 2009 and “aims to raise the profile of women in science, technology, engineering and maths by encouraging people around the world to talk about the women whose work they admire.” So today I would like to introduce you to 5 women in tech I think everyone should know. Ada…
This week we organized our first official GGD Workshop! Wednesday, October 10th, 21 enthusiastic Girl Geeks came to Rockstart to learn all about sketchnoting. While not many knew what is was, let alone had previously done it, all were eager to learn. The workshop started with drinks and bites (as all good events do), after…
VHTO is an organisation that wants more girls and women choosing a career in STEM. They have lots of events for young girls (until 14 years of age). And they’re looking for a speaker! We agreed to spread the word, so here it is – in Dutch.
So, this Wednesday at the Krasnapolsky in Amsterdam, next to having great sponsors in Hack in the Box and Facebook, we’re lucky to have two great speakers: Facebook’s Roxana Danila and Deloitte’s Esther van Luit!