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sion of the impact of motherhood on careers and work-life 4 People
balance is necessary. This topic has been shown to be of
value at Grace Hopper. Our session will build on this pre- Caitlin Sadowski (Moderator) Caitlin Sadowski is a
vious success, continue the disucssion, and explore with Ph.D. student in Programming Languages at the Univer-
the participants of of the Birds of a Feather audience the sity of California, Santa Cruz. Her research previously fo-
steps to continue our discussion virtually. cused on dynamic analyses for concurrency bugs, but has
currently become side-tracked by trying to figure out how
to get more women interested in computing. After dis-
2 Audience covering how many women and how few men drop out of
the STEM pipeline due to trouble with balancing a career
Based on the very active discussion at similar sessions in and family, she developed a research interest in mothers
both both the 2008 and 2009 Grace Hopper conferences, in computing.
we believe that this topic is of deep interest to a variety
of attendees. At the 2009 Grace Hopper conference, the
Alexandra Holloway (Panel) Alexandra is a Ph.D. stu-
“Baby Loading” session had a large attendance: 60 mem-
dent in Human-Computer Interaction at the University
bers ranging from people who had already had children to
of California, Santa Cruz and the mother of Leon (14
people who were considering it. Motherhood is a cross-
months). Her dedication to both babies and computing ex-
cutting concern for women spanning economic, religious,
tends to her research: she is currently developing a birth-
and cultural groups.
partner training game.
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References
[1] S. Correll, S. Benard, and I. Paik. Getting a Job: Is
There a Motherhood Penalty? American Journal of
Sociology, 112(5):1297–1338, 2007.