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Franklin W. Olin, |
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The
Gender Chip Project Jean
Donohue, producer/director, Media Working Group Presentation
Description: Though women
comprise the majority of undergraduates in How can we use
media to inspire dialogue and bring more women into the engineering
professions? In this workshop, participants will watch a short section of The Gender Chip Project, the 2006
documentary story that follows a remarkable and persistent group of college
women at Ohio State University as they train in engineering, the sciences and
the technological fields. Following the screening, we will present and
discuss ways to use the film and our accompanying online toolkits and
curricula to move viewers from insight to action around issues of gender
equity. When presented in a range of public settings—from
professional group meetings to college peer clusters and presentations for
high school students—The Gender
Chip Project provokes deep and wide-ranging
conversations among women in the STEM fields, and serves as a springboard to
build awareness and affect change at the institutional and policy levels. The Gender Chip Project offers both a documentary and companion materials
designed to assist teachers, parents and mentors who are encouraging girls to
the pursue careers in science, technology, engineering and mathematics. For more information visit http://www.genderchip.org About the Speaker Jean Donohue, producer/director,
is an independent producer and member of the Media Working Group, Inc.
filmmaker cooperative. She has been producing and directing documentaries for
over twenty-five years. Her work has been seen on the British Broadcasting
Corporation’s
BBC 2, the BBC World Service, The Discovery and Learning Channels, WNET13-New
York, and regional public television in the U.S. Her documentaries include
WOMEN MINERS (1989); FROM THE SHADOWS OF POWER (1991) screened at the
International Flaherty Documentary Seminar and broadcast on WNET-13 New York
for Independent Focus; HYBRID CITY co-producer and segment director for BBC 2
(1994); COAL BLACK VOICES (2001) broadcast on regional PBS, awarded Festival
Pick at Athens International Video and Film Festival. She is currently
executive producer and principal investigator for THE GENDER CHIP PROJECT
funded by the National Science Foundation (2004 & 2006), distributed by
Women Make Movies. She lives in Boston, MA. |
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