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Walking The Line
→: Walking The LineI’ve been thinking, and worrying, and talking with other women about the how hard it can be to walk the line between being a bitch, and being a pushover, for a long time. It took me a long time to realise, that this line isn’t just a line we walk because it is there, isn’t…
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Book: The Male Factor
→: Book: The Male FactorThis book – The Male Factor: The Unwritten Rules, Misperceptions, and Secret Beliefs of Men in the Workplace (Amazon) has to be one of the most depressing books I have ever read. Sometimes, surrounded by men, I think that I don’t understand the rules of the game that is on. Having read this book, and had…
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5 Tips When Applying to Opportunities For Women in STEM
→: 5 Tips When Applying to Opportunities For Women in STEMI’ve now reviewed a bunch of applications, for a number of different events. I’ve run the sessions that come afterwards deciding on who gets what, and as a result there are some mistakes that I’ve seen over and over again. I’m sure some women get rejected when they have a lot to offer, and part…
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The Pipeline is a Bullshit Argument, and Other Rants
→: The Pipeline is a Bullshit Argument, and Other RantsThe latest comments are from a guy who runs a startup incubator, but next week it will be someone else. Men, so many men, would like to explain why there are no women in the tech industry, and how it is not, actually, their fault, and there is nothing they can do, so can we…
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Emotional Women Have Context
→: Emotional Women Have ContextDo you remember the thing at Pycon, earlier this year? I’m not going to write specifically what, because I don’t want to linkbait. But if you are on Twitter and follow any technical women… I’m sure you saw it. It seemed like in the end, the consensus on the Internet (which I do not agree…
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A Man’s Guide to Helping Women in Tech
→: A Man’s Guide to Helping Women in TechWhat can men do? Other than not harass women? Although not harassing is a surprisingly good start. TL;DR: Step 1 – Don’t drive women away. Step 2: Don’t stand by and watch other men drive women away. Step 3: Give women a reason to stick around. Step 1: Don’t Perpetuate Understand the range and extent…
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GHC13 – What Are You Going to Do Differently?
→: GHC13 – What Are You Going to Do Differently?I have a bunch of posts to write up from GHC last week, which was as usual, awesome. But the question I was interested in people I went with answering was – what are you going to do differently when you get back? For me, it was a reminder about the takeaway I got from…
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Thinking About Statistics
→: Thinking About StatisticsI’ve been thinking lately, if we really accepted the statistics about technical women as being likely to reflect our own experiences, how might that affect our behaviour? It can be hard, as technical women, as we deviate from the statistical “norm” for a long time, and it’s easy to think that will keep going… but…
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GHC: Sheryl Sandberg, Maria Klawe and Telle Whitney in Conversation
→: GHC: Sheryl Sandberg, Maria Klawe and Telle Whitney in ConversationFirst real event of the conference, and sadly we were running a few minutes late, but I got to see most of this amazing conversation. Came into the middle of a conversation about women being described as “aggressive” – part of the bitch/pushover dichotomy. If you’re a pushover, you don’t get things because you “didn’t…