SWANA Women Support Group

10/14/2017

The Elmseed Enterprise Fund is organizing a November course for entrepreneurs 🚀

28 signatures are still needed! the City of New Haven, Housing Not Jails

10/14/2017

The Elmseed Enterprise Fund is organizing a November course for entrepreneurs 🚀

07/21/2016

Living at the intersection of 3 marginalized identities has made me stronger

03/22/2016

Colette Bourlier became one of the oldest people in France to be awarded the degree, 30 years after she first began researching immigrant workers.

09/12/2015

'The most dangerous phrase in the language is: "We've always done it this way"!' Rear Admiral Grace Murray Hopper

A trailblazer in the world of computing, Rear Admiral Grace Murray Hopper is the person who taught computers to "talk". Her desire to make computers more accessible led Hopper to invent the compiler in 1952, which allowed for the use of English instructions as opposed to numerical code that had to be interpreted by a computer. She also co-invented the Common Business Oriented Language (COBOL), the first universal computer language used in business and government.

Considered by many “the first lady of software,” Grace Hopper was a visionary who consistently demonstrated her interest in pushing boundaries and exploring new territories. As journalist Morley Safer, who interviewed Hopper for 60 Minutes in 1983, observed: "She is more than just a superb mathematical talent; it was Grace Hopper who helped teach the machines a language, stopped them from speaking in undecipherable numbers, enabled them to speak in English or French or German or whatever language you choose." Dr. Hopper was also a mathematics professor during a time when such careers were highly unusual for women and was actively involved with the U.S. Navy for over 40 years.

Grace Hopper is featured in the excellent book for readers 8 and up, “Girls Think of Everything: Stories of Ingenious Inventions by Women” at http://www.amightygirl.com/girls-think-of-everything

For two biographies for adults about this technology trailblazer, we recommend "Grace Hopper and the Invention of the Information Age" (http://amzn.to/1yxATCE) and "Grace Hopper: Admiral of the Cyber Sea" (http://amzn.to/1A9Be0o).

For several posters that feature Grace Hopper, check out this fantastic art print (http://www.amightygirl.com/grace-hopper-print), this minimalist poster (http://www.amightygirl.com/grace-hopper-poster), and the History of Women in Science poster (http://www.amightygirl.com/history-women-science-poster).

For more books for children and teens about women in technology and the sciences, including many biographies, visit our "Science & Technology" book section at http://www.amightygirl.com/books/general-interest/science-technology

07/12/2015

A new report finds that the number of women-owned firms grew 1.5 times the national average, and black women blow that statistic away.

02/16/2012

Women labourers give o***m to infants to keep them quiet while working

A report prepared by a few NGOs on child labour in Rajasthan has claimed that women working in mining or stone crushing units often give o***m to their infants to keep them quiet while they are working.

02/16/2012

Imagine: a world without FGM!

Eight thousand communities in Africa have sworn off female circumcision, including almost 2,000 that abandoned the practice this year, the United Nations Population Fund and UNICEF announced today. In northern and eastern stretches of Africa and the Middle East, cutting the female ge***als is see...

01/22/2012

NO to the Green Revolution

The Institute for Food and Development Policy/Food First shapes how people think by analyzing the root causes of global hunger, poverty, and ecological degradation and developing solutions in partnership with movements working for social change.

01/22/2012

Today several countries celebrate the Hugging Day, as a way to express kindness, gratitude or just to cheer someone up.

Share with us who you would like to hug or generally thank and why.

01/22/2012

Congresswoman DeLauro at Yale University to announce a $2.5 million grant for the New Haven Mental Health Outreach for Mothers (MOMS) Partnership.

01/17/2012

A link to Amnesty International's recent report on the inadequate protection of women and girls against r**e and violence in Haiti camps.

The January 2010 earthquake devastated Haiti. Since the earthquake, the specific needs of girls and women living in camps relating to the prevention of and response to gender-based violence have been inadequate. The risk of r**e and other forms of gender-based violence in Haiti’s camps has increased...