STEM – Jessica Gottlieb

Do You Help Your Daughter or Your Son?

September 16, 2014January 10, 2014 by Jessica Gottlieb

Last night at dinner Jane regaled us with a story where a male classmate told her to get out of the computer lab, “It’s for boys.” And she went on to other things at warp speeds (as 15 year old girls often do) when I had to give her a, “Whoa, whoa, back up! What … Read more

Where Have All the Women Gone?

October 11, 2013 by Jessica Gottlieb

Sometime around 1980 LAUSD opened it’s first computer magnet. My mother ran the computer lab. She didn’t have much in the way of a budget for networking but she did have kids. Mom and my brother spent weekends “making the phone talk to the computer” and ultimately networked with an elementary school in Russia where … Read more