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WomenShiftDigital @WomenShiftDigi

Celebrating Women in Digital Creativity, networking the networks since 2012 #creativity #WomeninTech #equality @bodydataspace @GBoddington

Joined December 2013
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Keir Starmer’s cabinet will have most female ministers in history theguardian.com/politics/art…

Keir Starmer’s cabinet will have most female ministers in history

It will, however, only have three from minority ethnic backgrounds despite a record 89 being elected to parliament

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Ghislaine Boddington@GBoddington
10 Jun 2024
I am honoured to be invited to #BOLDUnConference2024 in Austria this week and am looking forward to meeting with the global BOLD participants and the innovative companies from Austria, to jointly develop new solutions for the challenges of our time. #ShapingTheFuture #Innovation
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Killed Women Count: A project highlighting the toll and tragedy of violence against women in the UK theguardian.com/uk-news/ng-i…
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UK mothers 'earned £4.44 less an hour than fathers in 2023' #IWD2024 theguardian.com/world/2024/m…

UK mothers earned £4.44 less an hour than fathers in 2023, finds analysis

‘Motherhood penalty’ appears to be worsening, with pay gap for median hourly pay growing by 93p an hour since 2020

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International Women’s Day 2024 brings to the forefront the deeper issues - abuse deletes confidence and restricts women’s ability to move forward in life - “Abuse is main driver of mental ill health in women and girls, say psychiatrists” #IWD2024 theguardian.com/society/2024…

Abuse is main driver of mental ill health in women and girls, say psychiatrists

Findings from survey of UK practitioners may explain why many more women than men suffer from a range of conditions

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101 women narrate A History of Women in 101 Objects audiobook theguardian.com/books/2024/m…

‘Extraordinary’: 101 women narrate A History of Women in 101 Objects audiobook

Miriam Margolyes, Kate Winslet and Gillian Anderson among those giving voice to objects including a femur, a thumbscrew and a glass dildo

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A library named after a poet, playwright and the BBC's first black radio producer has opened in south London. The Una Marson Library was opened by Southwark Council bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cx9d…

Una Marson: Library honouring first black BBC radio producer opens

The community named the library after the Jamaican trailblazer, Southwark Council says.

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Gen Z boys/men more likely than baby boomers to believe feminism harmful, says poll - Young men hear a lot about girl power but don’t, at this stage in their lives, understand the inequalities that we know are in the world when you hit work and childcare theguardian.com/news/2024/fe…

Gen Z boys and men more likely than baby boomers to believe feminism harmful, says poll

Fifth of men aged 16-29 look favourably on social media influencer Andrew Tate

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Courtney Howard@Lulamaybelle
4 Jan 2024
Glynis Johns taught me and many others in my generation (and beyond!) about feminism in MARY POPPINS. #RIPGlynisJohns
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“This dev conference organizer seems addicted to making up women / Eduards Sizovs, the organizer behind the Devternity and JDKon developer conferences, admitted that at least one woman speaker’s profile was ‘auto-generated.’ “ theverge.com/2023/11/28/2397…

This dev conference organizer seems addicted to making up women

It really isn’t that hard to find real women developers.

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One in seven HR heads believe men are better suited to top jobs - “It is shocking that HR managers still believe that men are better suited to senior management than women,” theguardian.com/business/202…

One in seven HR heads believe men are better suited to top jobs

‘Shocking’ poll in England and Wales shows nearly one in five reluctant to hire women they think may go on to have children

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Where are all the ‘godmothers’ of AI? Women’s voices are not being heard theguardian.com/global-devel…

Where are all the ‘godmothers’ of AI? Women’s voices are not being heard

Amid the coverage of Sam Altman returning to the helm of OpenAI, women are being written out of the future of AI

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She's in CTRL - OUT NOW - Anne-Marie Imafidon@aimafidon
17 Nov 2023
Imagination drives innovation! Your dreams, like science fiction-inspired technology, can inspire constructive change. Don't restrict your vision! #ShesInCTRL #WomenInSTEM
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Chas Lister@chasbite
17 Nov 2023
Speaking as some one watching the mysery of a poorly managed menopause first hand, I smell the overbearing dismissive arrogance of male medics. Be assured, we already talk endlessly about it!! It does not make it better or bearable #menopause @NICEComms
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Sixty women at MoD complain of widespread ‘toxic’ and ‘hostile’ behaviour theguardian.com/uk-news/2023…

Sixty women at MoD complain of widespread ‘toxic’ and ‘hostile’ behaviour

Exclusive: Senior civil servants make serious allegations, including sexual assault, harassment and abuse, in leaked letter

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Men hold top four roles in UK government for first time since 2010 theguardian.com/politics/202…

Men hold top four roles in UK government for first time since 2010

Downing Street says it is not focused on ‘tick-box diversity’ and women get senior jobs elsewhere

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J Dakota Powell
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3 Nov 2023
FIVARS 2023: Spotlight on M. Curie VR - here I write about the need for more women #xr developers. Gender imbalance in xr dev is of concern. Unity/C# is easy to learn w/ plenty of resources, UE not rocket science, any barrier has to do w/ bias. #ar #vr #mr fivars.net/spotlight/fivars-…

FIVARS 2023: Spotlight on M. Curie VR - FIVARS

Journey with Marie Curie in a serious VR game.

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‘We need more women,’ says only female winner of Millennium engineering prize theguardian.com/science/2023…

‘We need more women,’ says only female winner of Millennium Technology prize

Women form just 16% of the nominees for next year’s award, but Nobel laureate Prof Frances Arnold says gender balance will come through girls working in science from a young age

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Somewhere on Earth@SOEPTech
31 Oct 2023
Listen to this weeks #SomewhereonEarthTech podcast with @GarethM @GBoddington. An #AI #robot that can detect lumps in the breast - could screening for #breastcancer be done by #robots? And is #AI reducing our #Internet #freedoms? @EmmaWoollacott has more. buzzsprout.com/2265960/13844…

A robot that can detect breast cancer? - Somewhere on Earth: The...

A new robot to detect breast cancer Imagine going to the supermarket to do your weekly shop and also getting a breast examination at the same time. The screening would be performed not by a human but...

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Suzy Madigan@Suzy_Madigan
30 Oct 2023
“It’s not that male decision-makers in #tech and #AI need to hear women’s voices, it’s about women sharing the decision-making equally” @HarrietHarman MP Not just the right way, but the more effective one. #AISummit #AISafetySummit @AISummitFringe @BonyoLinda @fawcettsociety
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