<div dir="ltr"><div style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px">Following the Meetup at VIS'15 in Chicago, which aimed to form a female mentoring network for minorities in VIS, we have created a dedicated mailing list for the group. </span></div><div style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px"><br></span></div><div style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px">To subscribe, visit: </span></div><div style="font-size:12.8px"><br></div><div style="font-size:12.8px"><a href="https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/women-in-vis" target="_blank" style="font-size:12.8px">https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/women-in-vis</a></div><div style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px"><br></span></div><div style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px">or send an email to: </span></div><div style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px"><br></span></div><div style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px"><a href="mailto:women-in-vis%2Bsubscribe@googlegroups.com" target="_blank">women-in-vis+subscribe@googlegroups.com</a></span></div><div style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px"><br></span></div><div style="font-size:12.8px">The mailing list will strictly serve this mentoring network.</div><div style="font-size:12.8px"><br></div><div style="font-size:12.8px">In contrast, for those interested generally in issues related to women in VIS, we recommend:</div><div style="font-size:12.8px"><br></div><span style="font-size:12.8px">* </span><a href="https://hbr.org/2015/03/the-5-biases-pushing-women-out-of-stem" target="_blank" style="font-size:12.8px">https://hbr.org/2015/03/the-5-biases-pushing-women-out-of-stem</a><br style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px">The 5 Biases Pushing Women out of STEM, J.C. Williams</span><br style="font-size:12.8px"><br style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px">* </span><a href="http://anitaborg.org/insights-tools/" target="_blank" style="font-size:12.8px">http://anitaborg.org/insights-tools/</a><br style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px">Anita Borg Institute's Insights & Tools (how to recruit, retain, advance women technologists)</span><br style="font-size:12.8px"><br style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px">* </span><a href="http://anitaborg.org/get-involved/systers/why-systers/" target="_blank" style="font-size:12.8px">http://anitaborg.org/get-involved/systers/why-systers/</a><br style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px">On the benefits of exclusively female fora</span><br style="font-size:12.8px"><div><span style="font-size:12.8px"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-size:12.8px"><br></span></div><div><div style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px">If you have any question, please contact:</span></div><div style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px">Hua Guo, Brown University (<a href="mailto:huag@cs.brown.edu" target="_blank">huag@cs.brown.edu</a>)</span></div><div style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px">Bei Wan</span>g, <span style="font-size:12.8px">University of Utah (<a href="mailto:beiwang@sci.utah.edu" target="_blank">beiwang@sci.utah.edu</a>)</span></div><span style="font-size:12.8px">G. Elisabeta Marai, University of Illinois at Chicago (</span><a href="mailto:gmarai@uic.edu" target="_blank" style="font-size:12.8px">gmarai@uic.edu</a><span style="font-size:12.8px">)</span><span style="font-size:12.8px"><br></span></div></div>