There’s an old proverb: Action is the proper fruit of knowledge – which is why 1X57 is offering a free workshop (drawing upon our days of running training for the Intellipedia Sabbatical) in DC next week for women and girls to learn how to edit and contribute to Wikipedia. Less than 13% of the Wikipedia editors …
Category Archives: womens issues
Where have all the women with gray hair gone?
I miss my grandmas. I was lucky and I had two wonderful women. Neither was perfect but they loved me and taught me so much. Now I look around and wonder, where have all the mature women gone? Is there a role in our society for them. Or, does every women have to a seductress …
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Wikipedia: Gateway Platform to More Girls in Tech?
Ever since the Wikimedia Foundation announced its goal to raise the share of female contributors to Wikipedia 25 percent by 2015, I’ve had it in my head to make sure my 11-year old niece is adding her voice to the collective knowledge of the world. It was with this goal of lighting the next generation’s …
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Post CES Take-away: In Vegas, women are discarded like unwanted Garbage Pail Kid cards
Or at least that’s the image that’s stuck in my mind after leaving Las Vegas for the 2011 Consumer Electronics Show. Not the cool 3-D displays I saw or the latest breed of electronic vehicles and tablets and it’s not the image of topless women I saw during my first Vegas strip club visit (yes, …
The Difference between Success and Failure is Will
Sometimes in life you don’t realize the impact of a person or event until you have the experience and perspective to understand it’s uniqueness. Few people stand out in my mind as having a positively illuminating impact on my life – I mean truly shine, like a lighthouse in the middle of a vast, dark …
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In Opposition to The Pill
I don’t normally write about sex per se at 1×57 but the recent 50th anniversary of the U.S. FDA’s approval of “The Pill” stirred up so many thoughts about sexuality, gender, childbearing, relationships, access to information, and the government’s role in all of this that I couldn’t miss the opportunity to ask questions. I wouldn’t …
She's Geeky…It's Personal
My story: I was born on a Sunday afternoon to Linda and Charlie Senger. My parents met when my mom was transferred to my dad’s division when her boss wouldn’t promote her because she was – a woman. My dad had a package on his desk addressed to his good friend from college, who turned …
She’s Geeky…It’s Personal
My story: I was born on a Sunday afternoon to Linda and Charlie Senger. My parents met when my mom was transferred to my dad’s division when her boss wouldn’t promote her because she was – a woman. My dad had a package on his desk addressed to his good friend from college, who turned …
Feminism and Passive Sexism
A political leader (from Greek “polis”) is an individual who is involved in influencing public decision making. That’s me. I can’t help it. I was born this way. Believe me, too, I have hated it in myself. Still it has influenced everything I’ve done in my life. Up to this point I have been very …