Comments on: 1st Solar Power International Start-Up Alley Challenge Winner Is… http://cleantechnica.com/2013/11/06/1st-solar-power-international-start-alley-challenge-winner/ Clean Tech News & Views: Solar Energy News. Wind Energy News. EV News. & More. Mon, 29 Dec 2014 04:36:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=4.0.1 By: SAbbs http://cleantechnica.com/2013/11/06/1st-solar-power-international-start-alley-challenge-winner/#comment-190576 Thu, 07 Nov 2013 17:35:00 +0000 http://cleantechnica.com/?p=58570#comment-190576 Do you suppose they pick the one woman because she’s a woman or are you simply making the observation that this is an industry predominately male?

]]> By: JamesWimberley http://cleantechnica.com/2013/11/06/1st-solar-power-international-start-alley-challenge-winner/#comment-190412 Wed, 06 Nov 2013 20:41:00 +0000 http://cleantechnica.com/?p=58570#comment-190412 A panel of nine men picks a male winner from a set of ten finalists including one woman.

Houston, we have a gender problem.

BTW, the engineer who has done more than anybody else to reduce the power consumption from electronic devices is not only a woman, but transgendered. Sophie Wilson (né Roger), designer of the first RISC processor for what later grew into Intel’s nemesis, ARM of Cambridge, England. My tribute is here: http://www.samefacts.com/2012/05/technology-and-society/lives-of-the-great-lgbt-engineers/

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