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Friends Don’t Let Friends… Become PMs
→: Friends Don’t Let Friends… Become PMsRecently, I heard about a school that has a mandatory “technology” class that students have to take in order to take CS classes in later years. It features: wood-working, circuit building, and Excel. This is horrifying. I want to go there with picket signs and stage a protest. Dress up as robots and chant things.…
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Whistling Vivaldi
→: Whistling VivaldiSince I heard about research showing that girls who self-identified as female before taking a math test tended to under-perform (compared to when they self-identified after taking the test) I’ve been wondering where else that effect is. Specifically, if you are always surrounded by guys, does that continually remind you? Does it affect your performance there?…
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Advice for Future Engineers
→: Advice for Future EngineersI can’t tell you how happy this xkcd made me. It’s a powerful statement on women in science (and engineering) but also contains this snippet of amazing advice. You don’t become great by trying to be great. You become great by wanting to do something, and then doing it so hard that you become great…
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Who Do You Think I Am?
→: Who Do You Think I Am?Recently, I was at an event. A colleague was giving a talk, which I’d worked to set up. Someone “important” at the location, who I’ve met, who in fact once signed a thank-you note to me and was, I’m told, part of a (positive) conversation about some of my work days before came down. I…
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WISE Talk: 3 Things That Make Me Luckier
→: WISE Talk: 3 Things That Make Me LuckierCommentary (I didn’t have slides) for the talk I gave for UO WISE. I thought I was going to come and have an informal chat about how interviewing at Google is not that scary, and then I saw Krystal’s tweet. [blackbirdpie id=”55757050474532864″] I freaked out a little, to be honest. Like, woah – I need…
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4 Hours to Smash the CS Stereotype and Create Something Beautiful
→: 4 Hours to Smash the CS Stereotype and Create Something BeautifulAli and I will presenting our paper 4 Hours to Smash the CS Stereotype and Create Something Beautiful (pdf) at the upcoming CICE Education conference in Toronto. Christine Alvarado of Harvey Mudd college came to Google last month to gave a talk on how they’d brought female enrollment in Computer Science up to 42%. The talk is called “Three…
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Am I a Feminist? Depends on Your Definition
→: Am I a Feminist? Depends on Your DefinitionThere are certain things I am, but don’t necessarily talk about that much. I’m atheist, but I don’t feel the need to argue about it anymore. I’m a feminist, but I’m not screaming it from the rooftops. In the circles in which I move, I tend to assume the programmers are atheist or at least…
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Being Dispensable
→: Being DispensableI heard a horrible story the other day – someone had been off work because they were seriously ill, and a week before they returned to work one of their colleagues called all her clients and said she was never coming back. Shocking, right? Bitchy! Horrifying. Disgusting behavior. Hurtful. The last thing you need. If…
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Women in Computer Science Links
→: Women in Computer Science LinksVarious things came up in a conversation about Women in Computer Science lately and so I went and did some digging for references! If you have anything else, please add it in the comments. On innovation and patents, “mixed-gender teams’ technology patents received up to 42% more citations than their single-gender counterparts.” On need for…