{"id":221,"date":"2022-06-06T17:46:48","date_gmt":"2022-06-06T16:46:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.lboro.ac.uk\/womeninscience\/?p=221"},"modified":"2022-06-06T17:46:49","modified_gmt":"2022-06-06T16:46:49","slug":"women-in-tech","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.lboro.ac.uk\/womeninscience\/women-in-tech\/","title":{"rendered":"Women in Tech"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>One of our former students, Amanda, has written an article titled <em>Women in Tech<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In the article, Amanda writes about attending an all girls school and not being exposed to the imbalanced gender ratio in STEM that she then experienced after leaving school.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Amanda then goes on to discuss the bias that exists within STEM and society, and the need for unconscious bias to be undone, as well as the need for systemic changes and how these can be made.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>&#8220;<strong><em>I truly believe the way you treat people, and in turn, how you view the world, lives on for generations. I want to leave this world a better place than I found it; don\u2019t you?<\/em><\/strong>&#8220;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"btn-wrappers\">\n<div class=\"btn-wrapper is-style-fill\"><a class=\"btn btn-primary\" href=\"https:\/\/theamandanote.medium.com\/women-in-tech-814453a03ef0\">Read Amanda&#8217;s <em>Women in Tech<\/em> article<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former student Amanda has written an article which talks about gender inequality, unconscious bias and the need for systemic change. Learn more.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":718,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"lboro_blog_alternative_thumbnail_image":"226","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[46,29,51,50,49,48,47],"class_list":["post-221","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gender-equality","tag-bias","tag-diversity","tag-government","tag-politics","tag-systemic-changes","tag-systemic-issues","tag-unconscious-bias"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lboro.ac.uk\/womeninscience\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lboro.ac.uk\/womeninscience\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lboro.ac.uk\/womeninscience\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lboro.ac.uk\/womeninscience\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/718"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lboro.ac.uk\/womeninscience\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=221"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lboro.ac.uk\/womeninscience\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":230,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lboro.ac.uk\/womeninscience\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221\/revisions\/230"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lboro.ac.uk\/womeninscience\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=221"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lboro.ac.uk\/womeninscience\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=221"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lboro.ac.uk\/womeninscience\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=221"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}