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Book: Pioneer Programmer
→: Book: Pioneer ProgrammerI was really excited to discover Jean Jennings Bartik, one of the original ENIAC women programmers had written a book, Pioneer Programmer (Amazon) and bought it immediately (although I confess it took me a while to get around to reading it!) The Computers documentary is amazing, but it’s only 20 minutes and so lots of…
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Speaker Notes: Burning Down The Patriarchy
→: Speaker Notes: Burning Down The PatriarchyEdited notes from my talk at UW Oct 15th which was in part a reflection of what had happened at GHC this year. This is the talk I live tweeted. I gave a talk on mobile last week at GHC, and I was feeling a little weird about the level of visibility I was experiencing…
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It’s Not That Big a Deal
→: It’s Not That Big a DealAs an Angry Internet Feminist™, every incident I point out has multiple parts. I notice and say something. Tone policing, on whether I should have noticed it. After all, it’s not that big a deal. Someone uses “he” when they should say “they”? Not that big a deal. Mild objectification of women in something that…
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Tweeting Shit That Men Say
→: Tweeting Shit That Men SayBackground: Last week was GHC, it included a Male Allies panel (live streamed) and a male keynote event (available to watch online). I tweeted a lot (with others) and wrote a couple of things. The Male Allies panel was followed by a reverse “you talk we listen” event. There was also a Male Allies Focus group…
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A Small Internet Kerfuffle
→: A Small Internet KerfuffleBackground Last week after a series of twitter rants, I wrote up what concerned me about the “Male Allies” panel at GHC (Grace Hopper Conference) this year. A surprising number of people read and shared it, and whilst (of course) some people disagreed, or thought that ABI (Anita Borg Institute) does so much good it’s…
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Male Allies and GHC
→: Male Allies and GHCThis year will be my 5th year at GHC (Grace Hopper Celebration, the annual conference for technical women from the Anita Borg Institute), my first speaking, and my first in my new post-corporate-job life. It’s been blocked on my calendar since last year, and there has been a long lead time, which means I made the…
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Conferences, Code of Conducts, and Being #ThatWoman
→: Conferences, Code of Conducts, and Being #ThatWomanLike a lot of people, I took the Code of Conduct pledge (so I was really pleased to see GHC add one this year), firstly because I see it as a sign that the event is committed to making it a welcoming space for women, and I do really only want to attend events where…
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On Leaving (again), Compound Effects and Falling Out Of Love
→: On Leaving (again), Compound Effects and Falling Out Of LoveSomeone tweeted that this post reminded them of my post about leaving. And I read it, finding it oddly compelling (even though I’m not excited by comics, or superheros), and then I found this quote. it seems to me to be the worst thing in the world to want to do something that badly and…
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Female Entrepreneurship: Observations and Opportunities
→: Female Entrepreneurship: Observations and OpportunitiesI’ve been generally skeptical of whether we would see a rise in Female Entrepreneurship, much of which was because looking at the data (female-led companies are more likely to succeed, male-led companies are more likely to fail) it wasn’t clear to me whether more women should be starting companies… or just fewer men. However there are some…