{"id":4568,"date":"2014-12-20T08:00:08","date_gmt":"2014-12-20T15:00:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/minkhollow.ca\/beckerblog\/?p=4568"},"modified":"2015-11-14T16:08:58","modified_gmt":"2015-11-14T23:08:58","slug":"mit-computer-scientists-demonstrate-the-hard-way-that-gender-still-matters-wired","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/minkhollow.ca\/beckerblog\/2014\/12\/20\/mit-computer-scientists-demonstrate-the-hard-way-that-gender-still-matters-wired\/","title":{"rendered":"MIT Computer Scientists Demonstrate the Hard Way That Gender Still Matters | WIRED"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Approximate Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span><p>Disappointing, but not surprising that women continue to face this kind of crap.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wired.com\/2014\/12\/mit-scientists-on-women-in-stem\/?mbid=social_twitter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/www.wired.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/MIT-campus-660x471.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"660\" height=\"471\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wired.com\/2014\/12\/mit-scientists-on-women-in-stem\/?mbid=social_twitter\">MIT Computer Scientists Demonstrate the Hard Way That Gender Still Matters | WIRED<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cWe\u2019re 3 female computer scientists at MIT, here to answer questions about programming and academia. Ask us anything!\u201d we wrote for our <a href=\"http:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/IAmA\/comments\/2p3lzc\/were_3_female_computer_scientists_at_mit_here_to\/\">Reddit Ask Me Anything session last Friday<\/a>. And then, boom:<\/p>\n<div class=\"pullquote-left\">\u201cWhy does it matter that you\u2019re female?\u201d<br \/>\n\u201cWhy did you put gender in the title?\u201d<br \/>\n\u201cWhy should your gender matter if you\u2019re talking about research?\u201d<\/div>\n<p>Dozens of questions <a href=\"http:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/IAmA\/comments\/2p3lzc\/were_3_female_computer_scientists_at_mit_here_to\/\">like these<\/a> were interspersed with marriage proposals and requests to \u201cmake me a sandwich\u201d in our AMA. We had intended for the AMA to be a chance to answer questions about what our lives are like as PhD students at MIT\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MIT_CSAIL\">Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Lab (CSAIL)<\/a>, and what we could do to get more young people excited about programming.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div class='wp_likes' id='wp_likes_post-4568'><a class='like' href=\"javascript:wp_likes.like(4568);\" title='' ><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/minkhollow.ca\/beckerblog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-likes\/images\/like.png\" alt='' border='0'\/><\/a><span class='text'>Be the first to like.<\/span><\/p>\n<div class='like' ><a href=\"javascript:wp_likes.like(4568);\">Like<\/a><\/div>\n<div class='unlike' ><a href=\"javascript:wp_likes.unlike(4568);\">Unlike<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Approximate Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span>Disappointing, but not surprising that women continue to face this kind of crap. MIT Computer Scientists Demonstrate the Hard Way That Gender Still Matters | WIRED. \u201cWe\u2019re 3 female computer scientists at MIT, here to answer questions about programming and &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/minkhollow.ca\/beckerblog\/2014\/12\/20\/mit-computer-scientists-demonstrate-the-hard-way-that-gender-still-matters-wired\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[3,353,81,363],"tags":[388,6,151,15],"class_list":["post-4568","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-academia","category-computers-2","category-information-technology","category-women","tag-academia","tag-computer-science","tag-gender","tag-higher-education"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4Hsb6-1bG","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":3043,"url":"http:\/\/minkhollow.ca\/beckerblog\/2012\/10\/24\/male-scientists-still-seem-to-think-that-women-innately-suck-at-math\/","url_meta":{"origin":4568,"position":0},"title":"Male scientists still seem to think that women innately suck at math.","author":"Katrin Becker","date":"October 24, 2012","format":false,"excerpt":"What Male And Female Scientists Say About Women In Science Interesting study, though to most women in the sciences, especially in math, physics, and tech, this is hardly news. 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