Part i excuse me, sir, but where are all the women?

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PART I: Excuse me, sir, but where are all the women? This is the first of a two-part conversation with former Apple audio software/hardware engineer and Stanford PhD AI grad, Dr. Timnit Gebru, on why there are not more women in STEM-related fields. And judging by her first day in a US high school, it’s no wonder.

“Women are very much interested in STEM. They start out interested and drop off as time goes by. To stay in this field, you almost have to be like a warrior.” — Dr. Timnit Gebru. Dr. Timnit Gebru completed her PhD at Stanford in the Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, studying computer vision. Timnit also worked at Apple, designing circuits and signal processing algorithms for various


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