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The girls of engineering calendar was produced with current and past engineering students from the University of Illinois posing in ridiculous poses - none of which are really nude, but all of which are supposed to be sexy.
You can buy the calendar for only $12.95 - I am wondering who’d want to. You can also see a slideshow with about 44 pics in it.
How brain dead does one have to be to realize that reinforcing sexual stereotypes does not unmake the stereotype? We all know some girls are engineers, some girls are sexy, and some sexy girls are engineers. Having revealing photos of the small minority displayed in a calendar does not magically convey the image that all sexy girls are engineers, or that all girl engieers are sexy.
Women in Engineering don’t have to be sexy to be good. They only have to be smart. The calendar, if anything, will reduce the few sexy & smart girls in engineering to fancy sexual objects. Quite the achievement for equality of the sexes in engineering education!
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education engineering sexism technology women
SI.com - Tennis - Wimbledon agrees to equal prize money - Thursday February 22, 2007 12:20PM
Wimbledon cited a combination of commercial, political and sporting factors for the decision
When I was 10 and me and my dad were watching the Winbledon on TV, I asked him - “So why do the women get a plate, and the men get a huge cup?”
Now that the difference in prize-money is gone, it is about time they started giving the women cups for trophies. Giving the men plates would work too. 
Tags: culture equality sexism sport tennis trophy wimbledon
Fran Allen wins the Turing award, becoming the first ever woman to win the prestigious ACM award worth $100,000. Frances Allen, (not to be confused with the first woman of New England birth to become a nun;) ) was a computer scientist at IBM, an IBM Fellow, who worked on compilers, program optimization work and modern methods for high-speed computing.
I was surprised to learn she was the first woman ever to win the award, but it shouldn’t have been surprising. There is a lot of work to be done to promote women in technology and computer science. The sexist, stereotyped “geek” should give way, it is high time.
Congratulations, Fran, and I hope you blaze the trail for many more female Turing award winners.
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