When I was in graduate school (back before the earth cooled) I remember thinking the following thoughts:<\/p>\n
In retrospect, like most of the things I have thought in my life, this line of reasoning was naive.
\nReading Why Are There So Few Women In Science<\/a>\u00a0in the New York Times reminded me about these thoughts of my halcyon youth, and made me dig through the last few QIP conferences to get one snapshot (note that I just say one, internet comment troll) of the state of woman in the quantum computing (theory) world:<\/p>\n
| Year<\/th>\n | Speakers<\/th>\n | Woman Speakers<\/th>\n | Percent<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2013<\/td>\n | 41<\/td>\n | 1<\/td>\n | 2.4<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n |
| 2012<\/td>\n | 43<\/td>\n | 2<\/td>\n | 4.7<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n |
| 2011<\/td>\n | 40<\/td>\n | 3<\/td>\n | 7.5<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n |
| 2010<\/td>\n | 39<\/td>\n | 4<\/td>\n | 10.2<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n |
| 2009<\/td>\n | 40<\/td>\n | 1<\/td>\n | 2.5<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n Personally, it’s hard to read these numbers and not feel a little disheartened.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" When I was in graduate school (back before the earth cooled) I remember thinking the following thoughts: Quantum computing is a new field filled with two types of people: young people dumb enough to not know they weren’t supposed to be studying quantum computing, and old, tenured people who understood that tenure meant that they … <\/p>\n |