The list goes on and on and on:
Charlie Jane Anders,
Tamsyn Muir,
Connie Willis,
Mira Grant,
Mary Robinette Kowal,
Lois McMaster Bujold,
Joan Vinge,
Nancy Kress
I am *certainly* forgetting many names I should not, but I am old and tired and working from memory.
Women have written some of the best sf/f of all time.
If you want to recommend others, just reply. We could all use a good list of women who've written sf/f on #internationalwomensday !
Oh! I still have a little bit of time in #Internationalwomensday, don't I? Some of the *great* sf/f writers are/were women.
I just spoke in another thread of CJ Cherryh's extraordinary skill at exposition in fiction.
But there are plenty more.
Andre Norton lit my youth, and is probably the oldest exemplar I know of.
Zilpha Keatley Snyder was there, too, with delightful tween-level fantasy, especially _Black and Blue Magic_.
This #InternationalWomensDay, spare a nod of acknowledgement for the first country in the world to give women the vote in national elections: the Isle of Man, in 1881, a full 145 years ago.
@debcha
How Infrastructure Works
https://bookshop.org/p/books/how-infrastructure-works-inside-the-systems-that-shape-our-world-deb-chachra/4ac5390bcd3d4868
@diana Learning System Thinking
https://bookshop.org/p/books/learning-systems-thinking-essential-non-linear-skills-and-practices-for-software-professionals-diana-montalion/c20f2cf47e1d19ba
@selketjah Collaborative Software Design
https://bookshop.org/p/books/collaborative-software-design-how-to-facilitate-domain-modeling-decisions-evelyn-van-kelle/ee2d22318caff628
Forthcoming (exciting!!):
@testobsessed
Signals and Levers
https://bookshop.org/p/books/signals-levers-systems-thinking-tools-to-unblock-software-delivery-elisabeth-hendrickson/bf2d9d17012f909f
A reminder on International Women's Day that trans women are women, and that true feminism is intersectional.
#internationalwomensday #transwomenarewomen #intersectionalfeminism
I don't need roses, flowers, and "happy day" wishes. I need #equalRights, #equalPay, and a change of our (again) hyperpatriarchal societies. Not only on paper but in life. The backlash we experience since our fights in the 1970/80s, makes me angry, not happy. And it should be clear that #feminism includes the fight for #transRights and those for #LGBTQ. #Democracy must live #diversity. Authoritarians treat us as enemies. Let's stand together!
I don't need roses, flowers, and "happy day" wishes. I need #equalRights, #equalPay, and a change of our (again) hyperpatriarchal societies. Not only on paper but in life. The backlash we experience since our fights in the 1970/80s, makes me angry, not happy. And it should be clear that #feminism includes the fight for #transRights and those for #LGBTQ. #Democracy must live #diversity. Authoritarians treat us as enemies. Let's stand together!
@debcha
How Infrastructure Works
https://bookshop.org/p/books/how-infrastructure-works-inside-the-systems-that-shape-our-world-deb-chachra/4ac5390bcd3d4868
@diana Learning System Thinking
https://bookshop.org/p/books/learning-systems-thinking-essential-non-linear-skills-and-practices-for-software-professionals-diana-montalion/c20f2cf47e1d19ba
@selketjah Collaborative Software Design
https://bookshop.org/p/books/collaborative-software-design-how-to-facilitate-domain-modeling-decisions-evelyn-van-kelle/ee2d22318caff628
Forthcoming (exciting!!):
@testobsessed
Signals and Levers
https://bookshop.org/p/books/signals-levers-systems-thinking-tools-to-unblock-software-delivery-elisabeth-hendrickson/bf2d9d17012f909f
After a couple of requests, a (by no means exhaustive) list of women on Mastodon you might want to follow:
@christineburns
@TCatInReality
@Geri
@TCMuffin
@CarolineLucas
@amokura
@AnnPettifor
And while there are, of course, many, many more, each of these Masto-folk are well worth following
This #InternationalWomensDay, spare a nod of acknowledgement for the first country in the world to give women the vote in national elections: the Isle of Man, in 1881, a full 145 years ago.
A reminder on International Women's Day that trans women are women, and that true feminism is intersectional.
#internationalwomensday #transwomenarewomen #intersectionalfeminism
Perhaps unsurprisingly, in those countries where gender pay gap reporting is mandatory & public the gap between men & women's salaries has been narrowing....
Its not just the issue of publicity but also of empowerment - keeping the gap obscure meant many women were not fully aware of their lower pay - making the gap transparent empowers women (and the union representatives) to act to narrow it.
#inequality #InternationalWomensDay
#GenderPayGap
h/t FT
Perhaps unsurprisingly, in those countries where gender pay gap reporting is mandatory & public the gap between men & women's salaries has been narrowing....
Its not just the issue of publicity but also of empowerment - keeping the gap obscure meant many women were not fully aware of their lower pay - making the gap transparent empowers women (and the union representatives) to act to narrow it.
#inequality #InternationalWomensDay
#GenderPayGap
h/t FT
It seems appropriate today to highlight the call by Wendy Hall for more women & girls to get involved in computer science.
Numbers of women being educated in computing has halved in the last 10 years, with now around 25% of computing students at university being women.
If AI & other technologies are to be more attuned to female needs & interests, this decline needs to be reversed & computing become less of a male dominated domain!
#AI #women #InternationalWomensDay
https://observer.co.uk/news/national/article/misogynistic-robots-a-real-risk-unless-more-girls-get-into-computing
@ChrisMayLA6 would love a version of this that is who to follow on the fediverse
Well in my list three are no longer with us & I'm pretty sure other than @AnnPettifor & @chimamandareal the others are not here.... apologies.
But you're right a IWD Mastodon list would be a great idea, here are a couple of personal faves:
Good morning, Fedifriends!
Happy International Women's Day ✨✨✨
The same things are said on this day each year but all kinds of women are still being abused, underpaid, undervalued and taken for granted.
The fact we still _need_ to have an IWD says it's not taken seriously by governments.
Its International Women's Day & having acknowledged my mother, I now want to mention a few other women who have shaped who I am:
* Susan Strange (political economist);
* Siobhan Collingwood (CEO Lancashire Women);
* Sarah Marsden (political scientist);
* Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie (novelist & campaigner);
* Linda Nochlin (art historian)
* Susan Sell (co-author & political economist);
* Ann Pettifor (political economist);
* Susanne Soederberg (political scientist)
