[Metalab] Frauen im Metalab

[alexander sulz]

On 26.06.2013 22:07, 夏博洋 wrote:
> Gibt es reguläre Events/Meetings für weibliche Mitglieder bzw. Besucher
> des Metalabs?
>
> lg, B
>
> Anstoss vom
> http://blackse.wordpress.com/2013/06/16/if-i-can-do-it-so-can-you/
>
>     *Feeling insecure…*
>
>     Carrying out research for a PhD in computer science and going to
>     academic conferences I was very much in a minority as a woman. The
>     ratio was around 2:8 female to male, or lower, and sometimes this
>     made things a bit uncomfortable. I remember going to one conference
>     where, after being told by my supervisor that I needed to network at
>     conferences, I approached a couple of guys during a break to discuss
>     the previous session. I plucked up courage and said something
>     friendly about the last speaker to start a conversation with them.
>     They looked me up and down, and then started talking to each other
>     as if I hadn’t said anything. I stood there feeling really silly,
>     realized after about thirty seconds that they were going to continue
>     to ignore me, and then walked away feeling absolutely mortified.
>
>     I had a few other encounters similar to this, and of course some
>     good ones too, but I never felt completely at ease in that type of
>     situation. That was until I went to a conference in Brussels for
>     women in science. This time there were about one hundred women and
>     two men. As I walked into the conference room and stood looking
>     around wondering where to go and sit, a woman came over and started
>     talking to me. We had a great chat and joined a conversation with
>     some other women, probably about why we were at the conference and
>     what we hoped to get out of it. What an amazing difference. I met
>     some truly amazing, inspiring and supportive women. That conference
>     changed my life.
>
>     I had thought that it was me, and my lack of social skills, that was
>     preventing me from enjoying academic life to the full. Now I
>     realized that wasn’t the case.
>
>     **
>
>

hi b,

Gibts zur zeit nicht mehr. frueher gabs msz baltazars meetups im lab, 
die mieten sich mittlerweile ein eigenes plaetzchen :) 
http://www.mzbaltazarslaboratory.org/