For my creative project, I wanted to look at how mothers are treated in their professional lives. Women who try to have it all often face recriminations for bringing work into their home or for not being in their children’s life enough. However, they are also punished for trying to incorporate their home life into… (read more)

In Ava’s post, she says “She perfectly balanced being a mother, truly loving and acknowledging her many children, while simultaneously working and helping change factories and employee’s rights,” which makes me think of the “having it all” discourse that many professional women are subjected to. The Atlantic recently published an article titled “Why Women Still Can’t… (read more)

While reading “A Calculus of Suffering,” I was frequently reminded of our discussion from Tuesday’s class and the reading for it. Obviously a lot of major themes resonated through both, as the readings from both days handled women breaking into a scientific/technological field which caused men to form assumptions about the capabilities of female scientists…. (read more)

Ava addresses in her post how important language was to women in the field of science, and it shaped the world’s perception of them. Yet they had the job of popularizing science – educating the masses with their words. This plays back into the idea that women are educators, not researchers. The men didn’t have… (read more)

The excerpts of Turing’s Cathedral was full of historical backgrounds and in depth analysis of the math that made Turing’s machine possible, as well as what the creation of this theory led to. Yet it appears women had no influence at all. When Klari van Neumann was first introduced, it was to say what her… (read more)

Like Ava mentioned in her post, the women in the film play an interesting role. I was focused on Pat Green, and how Turing seemed to look down on her, especially in the scene where he explains Fibonacci’s sequence to her as well as when they meet after he was sentenced. Here, he says he… (read more)

“#Gamergate and The Fappening: How Reddit’s algorithm, governance, and culture support toxic technocultures”’s exploration of Reddit culture analyzed how misogyny, racism, and homophobia can thrive unchecked online. Even when getting into illegal territory, Reddit hesitated to moderate their communities any stricter because they were making money. Reddit would prefer to make profit off the marginalization… (read more)

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