For the voices of women currently in archaeology from a this is what we do,
not a we are women perspective you might try looking through the Day of
Archaeology blogs.  http://www.dayofarchaeology.com/

It's been going for a couple of years now. The idea is that an archaeologist
blogs, takes photo's, does a video etc. to explain what they were doing on a
particular day of the year. So you get snap shots of what archaeologists are
actually doing. If it's a woman blogging then you get what she was doing.
You would have to troll through the categories and blogs to find ones that
were from women through.

Gaye

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Subject: Women in Archaeology/Science Outreach Ideas?

Hello,

Hoping for ideas and suggestions from the histarch community:

I'm in a cave archaeology research group at the moment consisting of
emerging scholars (all women) with a wide variety of archaeology and
anthropology specialities.  We have been discussing ways to continue our
work beyond the current field season with some sort of activism or outreach
around women in archaeology, science, and exploration.  We're still in the
early stages of this and our initial emphases are twofold.   We want to show
that women can be and are active in field sciences and 'hardcore'
exploration.  At the same time, we'd like to subvert the idea that we should
be highlighted as 'women scientists' in the first place, as opposed to
simply 'archaeologists,' 'scientists' or 'explorers.'  Those may be
competing goals but we feel that both sides are significant.

I'd appreciate any advice, discussion or suggestions (on or off list) about
framing these ideas, outreach strategies, experiences you have had with
similar initiatives, existing programs, etc.  My colleagues are putting out
similar messages on listservs in their own specialty areas. 

Let me just add that some of the initial media coverage of the Rising Star
Expedition, at least here in South Africa, was truly appalling (and
inaccurate) from a gender perspective.  Our focus, though, is how we might
be able to challenge what we perceive to be persistent gender expectations
in our various fields and to support young women with interests in science,
exploration and archaeology.  

Thank you!

Becca Peixotto
MA, Public Anthropology (Historical Archaeology) American University,
Washington, DC