{"id":1343,"date":"2008-11-17T14:57:22","date_gmt":"2008-11-17T19:57:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/girlwpen.com\/?p=1343"},"modified":"2008-11-17T14:57:22","modified_gmt":"2008-11-17T19:57:22","slug":"a-bad-week-for-womens-careers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/2008\/11\/17\/a-bad-week-for-womens-careers\/","title":{"rendered":"A Bad Week for Women&#8217;s Careers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"left\" src=\"http:\/\/tbn0.google.com\/images?q=tbn:aCOcJKqxa5E0JM:http:\/\/thebigchair.com.au\/upload\/the-big-chair\/stupidcurve.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/>And, yes, given the economic meltdown, for everyone&#8217;s no doubt.\u00c2\u00a0 But here are a few items that caught my eye:<\/p>\n<p><strong>In technology&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>According to an article in Saturday&#8217;s <em>New York Times<\/em>, women are veering away from computer science in droves.\u00c2\u00a0 The stat:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Twenty-five years ago, more young women in colleges and universities were drawn to computer science than today.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>What up?\u00c2\u00a0 Read the article, and do check out the amazing work that GWP&#8217;s own <a href=\"http:\/\/www.uic.edu\/depts\/crwg\/\">Science Grrl<\/a> is doing on this front.\u00c2\u00a0 Paging Science Grrl!<\/p>\n<p><strong>And at Citibank&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>In case you missed it, check out the article on how the chaos on Wall Street has cost Sallie L. Krawcheck&#8217;s career, cutesily titled\u00c2\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2008\/11\/16\/business\/16sallie.html?scp=1&amp;sq=When%20Citi%20Lost%20Sallie&amp;st=cse\">&#8220;When Citi Lost Sallie.&#8221;<\/a> (Thanks to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pursepundit.blogspot.com\">Purse Pundit<\/a> for the heads up).<\/p>\n<p><strong>And in Afghanistan, <\/strong>a horrible blow for girls&#8217; education.\u00c2\u00a0 This whole thing about the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.msnbc.msn.com\/id\/27713077\/\">acid attacks on school girls<\/a> in Kandahar makes me just weep.<\/p>\n<p>Sorry to be a downer today.\u00c2\u00a0 I&#8217;ll be back with more cheery news, I hope, soon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>And, yes, given the economic meltdown, for everyone&#8217;s no doubt.\u00c2\u00a0 But here are a few items that caught my eye: In technology&#8230; According to an article in Saturday&#8217;s New York Times, women are veering away from computer science in droves.\u00c2\u00a0 The stat: Twenty-five years ago, more young women in colleges and universities were drawn to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1902,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[21395,1399,665,21924],"class_list":["post-1343","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-girls","tag-global","tag-science","tag-womens-economic-empowerment"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1343","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1902"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1343"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1343\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1343"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1343"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1343"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}