[poll] women in STEM

[hermionesviolin]

I asked my friend Holly (who did a weekly poll on the board in my office when she worked here) for a March poll topic in honor of International Women's Day (one week from today #CaptainMarvelMovie).

She offered me, "Which female author / filmmaker is your favorite? Which feminist anthem is your fav?"

I opted for women in STEM -- largely inspired by the article about women in STEM posters I had recently seen. #nibling

I pulled a bunch from there and did some Googling to come up with people I had read about but couldn't call to mind by name. I came up with a list slightly too long to fit on the white board.

And then I came home today started pulling up links about these people to incorporate into the Internet version of the poll -- and found stuff I hard read back when the Hidden Figures movie came out in late 2016/early 2017.

So you get a much longer list than my office.

Links are to either the ~first place I heard about someone, or an interesting non-Wiki piece about them (sometimes part of a larger catalog) that came up when I Googled.

Women who show up a lot (or are actualfax famous) I didn't bother including links for.

Poll #21477 women in STEM

Open to: Registered Users, detailed results viewable to: All, participants: 5

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In honor of Women's History Month, who are some of your favorite women in STEM?

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Virginia Apgar (the Apgar Newborn Scoring System)
1 (20.0%)

Janaki Ammal (botany)
0 (0.0%)

Joceyln Bell Burnell (pulsars)
0 (0.0%)

Asima Chatterjee (organic chemistry -- anti-epileptic drugs and anti-malarial drugs) #GoogleDoodle
2 (40.0%)

Marie Curie (radioactivity) #2Nobels
1 (20.0%)

Rosalind Franklin (DNA)
2 (40.0%)

Grace Hopper (computer language compiler)
2 (40.0%)

Shirley Jackson (telecommunications -- first African-American woman to earn a Ph.D. from MIT)
1 (20.0%)

Mae Jemison (astronaut -- first African-American woman in space)
4 (80.0%)

Katherine Johnson (NASA orbital mechanics #HiddenFigures)
1 (20.0%)

Hedy Lamarr (frequency hopping spread spectrum -- now used in Bluetooth, etc.)
5 (100.0%)

Ada Lovelace (computer programming)
3 (60.0%)

Maryam Mirzakhani (geometry -- first woman to ever win the Fields Medal)
2 (40.0%)

Emmy Noether (abstract algebra and particle physics)
1 (20.0%)

Radia Perlman (Internet)
1 (20.0%)

Vera Rubin (dark matter)
0 (0.0%)

Dawn Shaughnessy (3 new elements in the periodic table)
0 (0.0%)

Nettie Stevens (XY chromosomes) #GoogleDoodle
0 (0.0%)

Gladys West (satellite geodesy behind GPS)
0 (0.0%)

Chien-Shiung Wu (nuclear physics)
0 (0.0%)

Tu Youyou (anti-malarials) #Nobel
0 (0.0%)

Who are your favorites that I left out?

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