{"id":3722,"date":"2018-03-09T17:48:32","date_gmt":"2018-03-10T01:48:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nancyrhine.com\/?p=3722"},"modified":"2018-03-09T17:53:53","modified_gmt":"2018-03-10T01:53:53","slug":"broad-band-raising-women-invisibility","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.nancyrhine.com\/2018\/03\/09\/broad-band-raising-women-invisibility\/","title":{"rendered":"Broad Band &#8211; Raising Women Up Out of Invisibility"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nancyrhine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/Broad-Band-cover-image.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-3723\" src=\"http:\/\/www.nancyrhine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/Broad-Band-cover-image-199x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"199\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.nancyrhine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/Broad-Band-cover-image-199x300.jpg 199w, http:\/\/www.nancyrhine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/Broad-Band-cover-image.jpg 298w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 199px) 100vw, 199px\" \/><\/a>This week we saw the release of a new book chronicling a hidden segment of the female population who made important contributions to our world without most people ever realizing it. Similar to <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Hidden_Figures_(book)\">Hidden Figures<\/a>, although perhaps not as dramatic as a WWII story, the women in <a href=\"https:\/\/clairelevans.com\/\">Claire Evans&#8217;<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.penguinrandomhouse.com\/books\/545427\/broad-band-by-claire-l-evans\/9780735211759\/\"><strong>Broad Band<\/strong><\/a> were creatives, science geeks, pragmatists, entrepreneurs, activists, visionaries and householders trying to make a living. They were some of the very few pioneering women who pushed out the boundaries and succeeded in the vastly male-dominated world of science and computing.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Claire takes on the daunting task of sifting through so many many stories and voices to feature just a few spanning over 100 years. She begins with ground-breakers like Ava Lovelace, Grace Hopper and the &#8220;two Betty&#8217;s&#8221; (Betty Jean Jennings and Betty Snyder).\u00a0 She spins the tales of &#8220;A Girl Named Jake&#8221; and tracks the women leaders through the days of the ARPANET, the early BBS&#8217;s, the dial-up&#8217;s, the emergence of the web and the world of gamers. As Claire poignently writes at the end of her book, there are hundreds of more stories to tell and women to feature &#8211; she hopes others will take up on the torch and keep giving voice to women&#8217;s contributions and stories.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>I am so honored to have a few of my own stories told in Claire&#8217;s chronicle. It was a blast of a ride <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nancyrhine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/Wood-cut-through-the-universe-looking-glass.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-3727\" src=\"http:\/\/www.nancyrhine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/Wood-cut-through-the-universe-looking-glass-300x232.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"232\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.nancyrhine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/Wood-cut-through-the-universe-looking-glass-300x232.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.nancyrhine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/Wood-cut-through-the-universe-looking-glass.jpg 350w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>to launch the first women-focused online site Women&#8217;s Wire to entice women to try out this new medium which would change our world. There were so few women online in the beginning. It was clear to me that we needed more diversity and more different kinds of voices involved in this new medium.\u00a0 Trying to teach women how to use computers was great fun &#8211; I was able to move from our mighty band of 1500 initial Women&#8217;s Wire subscribers to launch and mange a huge new &#8220;women&#8217;s channel&#8221; of 7,000,000 female subscribers at AOL. Once the doors opened to the Net for women, they flooded online and have never looked back.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>As a lifelong activist and feminist, I find myself working every day now to bring my own version of justice and fairness and kindness to this population I am entering &#8211; seniors.\u00a0This population too &#8211; especially senior *women* &#8211; needs to become more visible and have their voices heard.\u00a0 They all have rich stories &#8211; adventures, failures, successes, lessons learned that can be passed on. And this is time in our country when we can really use those voices sharing what they have learned, often the hard way, and what they have accomplished through plowing hard ground &#8211; accomplishments that often are simply taken for granted in the present time.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Although I have not yet finished Claire&#8217;s book, I look forward to reading more pages every day and learning about the amazing women who invented and contributed (and led!) in the field of computing. Some of the women are renowned to me and some I am just learning about. Again, such an honor to have a small place in this book amongst so many amazing women and kudos to Claire for taking on this challenge and giving VOICE to so many whose stories are fascinating and worthy of being told.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This week we saw the release of a new book chronicling a hidden segment of the female population who made important contributions to our world without most people ever realizing it. 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