BCS Glasgow AGM 2014 & Pinkification or Feminising?
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Date Monday 13th October 2014
Time 6:00 for 6:30 pm
Location Lecture Theatre W118, 1st floor Hamish Wood Building, Glasgow Caledonian University, Cowcaddens Road, Glasgow G4 0BE - Map of Location
Speaker Sharon Moore (BCSWomen Scotland)
Convenor Tejinder Singh Lota
Sharon Moore will be delivering a presentation on Pinkification or Feminising? This will then be followed by the AGM.
Pink is not a feature, yet Pritt stick thinks there's a need for pink glue. Do you?
Will pinkification entice more girls into STEM?
In this session Sharon Moore will introduce the concept of pinkification and share some opinions, and will then invite the audience to debate their way to a conclusion.
In advance of the evening you may wish to read a few articles related to the subject:
* http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2716279/I-want-make-Lego-girl-people-let-adventures-Company-releases-toy-set-showing-female-scientists-sold-out.html
* http://reelgirl.com/2014/08/fuck-you-lego/ (This is not the opinion of BCS, The Chartered Institute for IT)
* http://www.pinkstinks.co.uk/
* https://implicit.harvard.edu/implicit/takeatest.html
