Below you’ll find a (non-exhaustive) list of information and resources compiled by CSET team members to help us learn from, support and honor Women’s History Month.
- Learn From & Uplift Women Authors in Emerging Tech/National Security:
- Anne-Marie Slaughter on why America’s diversity is its strength by Anne-Marie Slaughter
- Machine Bias by by Julia Angwin, Jeff Larson, Surya Mattu and Lauren Kirchner
- Discriminating Systems: Gender, Race, and Power in AI by Sarah Myers West, Meredith Whittaker, and Kate Crawford
- Testimony of Alexandra Reeve Givens before the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee
- Data Driven: Truckers, Technology, and the New Workplace Surveillance by Karen Levy
- Learn About & Engage With Women in Emerging Tech/National Security:
- The 9 Inspirational Women Leaders In AI Shaping The 21st Century
- Women in Science and Technology
- Timeline of Gender Bias in AI
- The Women Putting Intelligence in Artificial Intelligence
- Lina Khan is taking swings at Big Tech as FTC chair, and changing how it does business
- ‘How Will I Pump?’: When Your First Work Trip After Maternity Leave Is to Ukraine With President Biden
- Women in the workplace: Breaking up to break through
- MDI Distinguished Lecture by Harvard Professor Karen Dynan, Ph.D.
- Attend a Women’s History Month Event:
- Women in STEM at State Panel; March 13, 2023
- Women Entrepreneurs Forum (WEF); March 29-31, 2023
- The National Museum of the United States Army organizes several free events about women’s history in the military
- DC public libraries across the city are hosting events including book readings, movie screenings, art exhibitions, etc.
- Smithsonian American Women’s History Museum
- Dine at Women-owned Restaurants:
- Shop at Women-owned Businesses:
- Volunteer & Empower Women and Girls
- Read Books by Women Authors:
- The Best 40 books written by Contemporary Women according to Elena Ferrante
- On Women’s Liberation:
- “Bad Feminist” by Roxane Gay
- “Whipping Girl: A Transsexual Woman on Sexism and the Scapegoating of Femininity” by Julia Serrano
- “Untamed” by Glennon Doyle
- The Right to Sex: Feminism in the 21st Century by Amia Srinivasan
- “The Soul of a Woman” by Isabel Allende
- “All the Single Ladies: Unmarried Women and the Rise of an Independent Nation” by Rebecca Traister
- “Feminist City: Claiming Space in a Man-Made World” by Leslie Kern
- “The Pain Gap” by Anushay Hossein
- Women and Data/AI
- “Invisible Women: Exposing Data Bias in a World Designed for Men” by Caroline Criado-Perez
- “Data Feminism” by Catherine D’Ignazio and Lauren Klein
- “Future Histories: What Ada Lovelace, Tom Paine, and the Paris Commune Can Teach Us About Digital Technology” by Lizzie O’Shea
- “Broad Band: The Untold Story of the Women Who Made the Internet” by Claire L. Evans
- Watch a Documentary:
- Listen to a Podcast:
- Binchtopia
- Under the Sisterhood
- Our Body Politic
- HBR Women at Work: Let’s Do Less Dead-End Work: Why women wind up with so much office drudgery and how to get some of it off our plates.
- Host a Women’s History Month Party – complete with an all-women playlist & movie by a woman filmmaker
- “Nomadland” directed by Chloé Zhao
- “Little Women” directed by Greta Gerwig
- “Booksmart” directed by Olivia Wilde
- Donate to Women-owned Causes:
- Girl Security (non-profit dedicated to mentoring young women, 14-26, interested in national security)
- Thrive DC
- FTP Mutual Aid DC
- Community aid benefits women in specific ways – DC Mutual Aid is almost exclusively organized by women in most wards.
- Reflection and Resources:
- Sourcelist(women+): Sourcelist aims to integrate the voices and perspectives of women and underrepresented genders in mission-critical technology policy conversations. Sourcelist is an open directory that seeks to help in the last mile of efforts to promote greater gender diversity; it is a resource for those looking to put good intentions into practice. Not on the list? Add your name here.
- Why is March Women’s History Month?
- Women’s History Month
- Becoming an Ally to Women at Work
- Celebrating Women’s History at Georgetown
- The OECD Gender Initiative examines existing barriers to gender equality in education, employment, and entrepreneurship. Includes OECD Gender Data Portal.
Please note: The views, thoughts, and opinions expressed in the information above belong solely to the author/organization/etc., and do not necessarily reflect the view of the Center for Security and Emerging Technology (CSET), Georgetown University, and/or other groups or individuals.