It was only when ChatGPT began hitting the news that I thought: I can talk about AI and IT from a women’s perspective, as a female computer scientist, explaining how it works in a way that other women will enjoy.
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Women in STEM, women in society
To get more young women into technology we need to change the field to make it more welcoming. And to do that, we first need to change society, as technology is a reflection of society. Dr Ruth Stalker-Firth
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Little did I know that my journey from secretarial training to computer scientist was the classic one women had been
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The first computers were women. They were actually called ‘computers’ as programming was traditionally female clerical work – lowly paid
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In March last year (2023) my Women’s Institute (WI) group, Gothic Valley WI (GVWI), shifted our meeting online due to
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