women in computer science
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Cookie Not Found
→: Cookie Not FoundI’m often quite pathetically grateful when a male techie treats me like a – shocker – actual, competent human. When he’s OK with me doing a thorough code review, making suggestions if we are pairing, or just listening to my opinion and then discussing rather than attempting to 1-up me. Do I tell these guys this? Maybe…
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GHC: Leadership Workshop with Patty Azzarello
→: GHC: Leadership Workshop with Patty AzzarelloI was interested in this workshop, because I had read Azzarello’s book, Rise: How to Be Really Successful and Like Your Life. “Your job description is not a life sentence.” “You have more control than you think.” These quotes set the stage for a really helpful presentation about how we see our jobs, and how…
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A BS Metric for “Diversity”
→: A BS Metric for “Diversity”Recently, I got to use the fact that I am a huge art nerd, to help a team I was on. It was awesome, because I actually felt appreciated – and there’s been something of a dearth of that lately, and because it was a showcase of the positive effects of diversity (something we had…
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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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Staying Silent
→: Staying SilentTRIGGER WARNING There’s a sick cycle in the tech industry, where if a woman say someone assaulted or harassed her but doesn’t name names, she’s probably making things up. But if she does, she’s public shaming and ruining someone’s life. I don’t know what people think happens to the life of someone who’s been sexually…
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On Burnout
→: On BurnoutI am so burnt out right now. There’s a long list of reasons for that, but a lot of it is just the industry and how women are treated – as one of my friends put it “dudes are just a trigger warning for you at this point”. And this is exacerbated by not feeling…
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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…