“If we get to a point where a female physicist is as famous as Cheryl Cole, we’ll have sorted out the issue,” said Suw Charman-Anderson.
She is the organiser of Ada Lovelace Day, an annual event designed to raise the profile of female scientists, technologists, engineers and mathematicians.
Ada Lovelace Day is on 16 October and in London a cabaret-style evening of talks, demonstrations and singing, all performed by women, will mark the event, with additional celebrations planned in Brazil, Slovenia, Sweden, Italy and the US.
The day is named after Ada Lovelace, who worked with inventor Charles Babbage on plans for an “analytical engine” in the 1800s.
via BBC
October 16, 2012
