Think, Look, Make

Imogen Cunningham Coffee Gallery, 1960 by Imogen Portrait of a Woman, 1939, by Imogen What is on my mind today: the state of women in 2015. It's a vast topic, but I will make it local and personal. It seems that even in Silicon Valley, which has some of the best opportunities for creative people, women do not compete on equal terms with the men who run and fund tech companies. See, for example, the January 2015 article by Nina Burleigh in Newsweek: What Silicon Valley thinks of Women, which describes the sexism there as "sordid and systemic." http://www.newsweek.com/2015/02/06/what-silicon-valley-thinks-women-302821.html In this same Valley, I teach at one of the top high schools in the state, a place where there is much talk about reducing the "achievement gap." Yet I don't hear talk about reducing the achievement gap between male and female students- particularly in advanced Math and Science classes, where we know that the students are mostl...