Awareness of the need for diversity in computing is growing. The Women in High Performance Computing (WHPC) is welcoming submissions from female early career researchers and post doctoral students to present a talk or poster on their work in any field of HPC at the workshop. Submission are due by July 31, 2014. Click here for more details.
The WHPC SC14 call is the latest in a number of efforts to attract more women to technology careers. Google recently kicked off a $50M “Made with Code” effort. Similarly NVIDIA has a “Women Who CUDA” effort.
The WHPC network supports collaboration and networking by bringing together female HPC scientists, researchers, developers, users and technicians from across the UK. We encourage women in HPC to engage in outreach activities and improve the visibility of inspirational role models. Our activities are complemented by research into the influence of UK equality initiatives on the HPC community.
The importance of equality
Gender inequality is a key problem across all scientific disciplines, both in academia and industry. The European Commission report on gender inequality (published in 2012, but using figures from 2009-2010) shows that, across the 27 countries in the EU, there is a significant gender gap in science education and beyond (Laroche 2013). These figures indicate that women educated to terrtiary level were more likely to have a technical or professional job than men with a similar level of education. However, despite this, women were less likely to be scientists or engineers than men and were less likely to use a science-based PhD in a research career than men.
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