{"590229":{"#nid":"590229","#data":{"type":"news","title":"The Women of Georgia Tech Robotics","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EAlthough she\u0026rsquo;s only in her mid-forties, \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/howard.ece.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003EAyanna Howard\u003C\/a\u003E is the nation\u0026rsquo;s most senior African-American female roboticist in higher education. It\u0026rsquo;s another example of the lack of females in the field.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;It always surprises me,\u0026rdquo; said Howard, the Linda J. and Mark C. Smith Chair Professor in the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.ece.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003ESchool of Electrical and Computer Engineering\u003C\/a\u003E. \u0026ldquo;The medical and biomedical fields are just as technical as robotics, but they don\u0026rsquo;t have as major of a gender gap.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe good news? While nationwide numbers for robotics aren\u0026rsquo;t available, the number of females getting undergraduate degrees in computer science is increasing. It was nearly 14 percent in 2009. It\u0026rsquo;s up to almost 16 percent as of 2015. This past fall, 23 percent of Georgia Tech\u0026rsquo;s computer science students were female.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EDoes diversity in robotics truly matter? Howard and fellow females are quick to say yes.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;If robots are truly being built so everyone can use them, how can roboticists figure out what\u0026rsquo;s needed for half the population if women aren\u0026rsquo;t represented very well in the design process?\u0026rdquo; Howard asked. \u0026ldquo;Our field must be reflective of the consumer market.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.news.gatech.edu\/features\/women-robotics\u0022\u003EIn a world dominated by men, here are 10 Georgia Tech women changing the field of robotics.\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EOn National Robotics Week, Georgia Tech profiles 10 of the Institute\u0026#39;s leading female robotocists.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"A profile of 10 female roboticists "}],"uid":"27560","created_gmt":"2017-04-11 16:49:32","changed_gmt":"2017-04-11 16:49:32","author":"Jason Maderer","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2017-04-11T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2017-04-11T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"590228":{"id":"590228","type":"image","title":"Women in Robotics","body":null,"created":"1491928598","gmt_created":"2017-04-11 16:36:38","changed":"1491928598","gmt_changed":"2017-04-11 16:36:38","alt":"women in robotics photoshoot","file":{"fid":"224871","name":"Women in robotics.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/Women%20in%20robotics.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/Women%20in%20robotics.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":1445637,"path_740":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/Women%20in%20robotics.jpg?itok=cl8FW6XS"}},"590227":{"id":"590227","type":"image","title":"Karen Liu","body":null,"created":"1491928419","gmt_created":"2017-04-11 16:33:39","changed":"1491928419","gmt_changed":"2017-04-11 16:33:39","alt":"Karen Liu","file":{"fid":"224870","name":"Karen Liu.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/Karen%20Liu.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/Karen%20Liu.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":1188418,"path_740":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/Karen%20Liu.jpg?itok=6MDsL_W0"}}},"media_ids":["590228","590227"],"related_links":[{"url":"http:\/\/www.news.gatech.edu\/features\/creating-next-robotics","title":"Creating the Next in Robotics"},{"url":"http:\/\/www.news.gatech.edu\/features\/major-league-machines","title":"Georgia Tech Robot Baseball Cards"},{"url":"http:\/\/www.news.gatech.edu\/features\/class-notes-class-masses","title":"A Robot Class for the Masses"}],"groups":[{"id":"1214","name":"News Room"},{"id":"1278","name":"College of Sciences"},{"id":"47223","name":"College of Computing"},{"id":"1237","name":"College of Engineering"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[],"core_research_areas":[{"id":"39521","name":"Robotics"}],"news_room_topics":[{"id":"71881","name":"Science and Technology"}],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EJason Maderer\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\nNational Media Relations\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\nmaderer@gatech.edu\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n404-660-2966\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"email":["maderer@gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}