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''' WOMEN & WORLD '''

WITHIN *HALF A DECADE* OR SO - all girl technologists, all women technologists the world over, will have-

The great honor to live their lives-
With all dignity, all equality, all elevations and all great wishes.

GIRLS NEVER FORGET that ''Life is just too short to be afraid of nothing. And I will very soon show you.''  All Fairy tales about fears, the fears within, will be a horrible relic of the unfortunate, very dark past.

She has been decapitated twice, had her right arm sawed off once and been smeared with paint too many times to count.

No public monument has faced such steady abuse as the statue Hans Christian Anderson's-  Little Mermaid perched on a large rock in a Copenhagen harbor.

Among her most faithful assailants have been feminist groups protesting her as ''symbol of hostility to women.'' There might be no better illustration of the lasting, unsettling power of fairy tales.

'' Zilli, how good and effective is *The World Students Society* on that Global System. Can you get someone to have a private word with :

 Maryam, Asifa,  Merium, Rabo, Dee, Eman, Haleema, Armeen, Seher. Let's have some prototype runs? ''

Girls, remember -that some of the scariest monsters come from within. And learning to identify what to fear, and to fear the right things, can be a kind of power. 

And while I am on the subject, let me just stop long enough to pay respects and enclose all my love and prayers for *these beautiful and sparkling* teachers of Roots Schools for, Mirpur Azad Kashmir.

ROBIN MORGAN first went to Paris as a teenager, hired as an au pair for an American family. Once her charge went to sleep, ''I would go out and and frequent the places the poets had been, and just think, 'my God, here was their land,'' she recalled.

IN ASIA, IN GENERAL, ''while things are improving, the bosses are still older men and maybe less willing to accept young women as engineers.

IN SINGAPORE, more and more women are running successful tech companies or start-ups, said Jacqueline Poh, chief executive of the Government Technology Agency of Singapore.

Shira Kaplan, 34 who moved with her husband from Israel to Zurich for his job, found that the message about combining motherhood and work was very different in Switzerland than in her native Israel.

IN ISRAEL, perhaps because military service is mandatory for women and men, there is a greater sense of equality, she said, and there are more women entrepreneurs in technology.

In Switzerland, walking into technology conference, ''almost everyone around you is a gray-haired male in a suit,'' she said.

''It's difficult because when doing business with someone, you look for something in common, and we're asymmetrical -'I'm young, they're old. I'm a woman, they're male, I'm short they're tall.' ''

Ms. Imafidon, 28, agreed. ''I'm young, a person of color, a woman and I talk like a person from East London  -you could discriminate against me for a number of reasons.''

She said she hasn't experienced much gender bias, probably because, she said, she is very confident and not especially perceptive about what other people think of her.

At 20 she was one of the youngest people ever to be awarded a master's degree in mathematics and computer science by the University of  Oxford, and in 2013-

The British Computer Society, a professional organization, named her its young information technology professional of the year.

But she is worried about the small number of young women entering the fields of science, technology, engineering and mathematics, collectively known as STEM, and the messages they're getting about women in technology.

Her concern led her to start Stemettes, which offers workshops, classes and summer programs designed to expose all girls and young women to science, technology and engineering.

For example, at a recent event, 60 girls ages 5 through 19 showed up to build their own apps.

The different educational systems in the United States and Britain mean that each has its own strengths and weaknesses when teaching STEM, she said; British schools, unlike schools in the united States, have a national curriculum-

STEM teaching in the United States, on the other hand, 'might be more patchy, but it can also be more creative.''

Vanessa Evers, a professor of Computer Science  at the University of Twente in the Netherlands who was a visiting scholar at Stanford University and who worked for Boston Consulting Group in London, said-

The United States offer more women role models in technology and science than her country does.

''In America, it is easier to find support,'' said Prof Evers, who specializes in human-computer- interactions. ''I had women mentors who were willing to allow me to be there to observe and come along to important meetings.

I learned so much just from being there. It's not so common here  -there's more of a class system a sense that ''you don't crash the party.''

She feels, she said, a ''basic condescension'' as a women in tech, ''I feel I have to convince them that I know the technology, and they're surprised when I do.'' 

The Honor and Serving of the Latest Operational Research on Technology Careers and challenges for girl students continue.

With respectful dedication to all the Female Students the world over and then Students, Professors and Teachers of the world. See Ya all on !WOW! -the World Students Society and-  Twitter-!E-WOW!  -the Ecosystem 2011:

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