women in computer science
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Three Phases of Technical Women
→: Three Phases of Technical WomenAmongst other technical women, I’ve observed three broad phases when it comes to their feelings and attitudes with respect to the issues of women in tech. These are my unscientific and generalised observations. Ignorance is Bliss This phase is where women deny that there are any issues facing women in the industry, and sometimes even…
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Women in Tech: A Primer
→: Women in Tech: A PrimerIt seems like I am often giving well-meaning men (and sometimes women) a basic overview in the issues women face in the tech industry. I wrote something along those lines the other week, but here is something more comprehensive. It’s a Societal Problem Let’s start with the most horrifying finding – more parents encourage their…
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Sydney, One Year On
→: Sydney, One Year OnI’ve been thinking a lot lately about when I decided to move to Sydney. The two week period in which I changed my mind every day – multiple times a day, even. I cried every day. It was a difficult decision, where to go, and it was hard to live a place that I loved,…
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Confidence
→: ConfidenceI was having a conversation with one of my mentors last week about a specific challenge I was facing, and she made this observation, and gave me a brilliant piece of advice that completely transcends that discussion and put so many things in context for me. If it’s affecting your confidence, then we have a…
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Women in Computer Science: It’s a Hard Problem
→: Women in Computer Science: It’s a Hard ProblemThere’s this class of problems in Computer Science, called NP-Hard. The short explanation for this, is that these are some of the most difficult problems in the field, where solutions are likely to be exponential in time. One such problem is the Travelling Salesman problem – finding the shortest path on a graph (or a…
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And then, Nothing
→: And then, NothingThis guy came on too strong to me, I think he thought it was passionate but I just felt uncomfortable. So I actually physically pushed him away from me. Being a Nice Bloke, he was upset that he had violated my boundaries. And so, I comforted him. This is one of those scenarios that I…
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On Building The Things You Want
→: On Building The Things You WantI think my best reason of why we need more women working in technology can be explained with two websites. OKCupid is a dating site, it’s very successful, and they have a great blog. Part of the premise is that users answer all these questions – it’s very data-driven. The other one is a Spanish…
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Book: Unlocking the Clubhouse
→: Book: Unlocking the ClubhouseI’d heard about this book (Amazon) for a long time, but especially since I arrived here – the other women in the office are huge fans, and talked about it a lot. And I kept thinking I would get around to reading it, but no hurry, I’ve read a lot of the research, I think…
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Being !=OK
→: Being !=OKIn January, I was killing it. I’d been promoted, work was going well, I lived in a city I love, hanging out with an awesome group of friends and regular girls nights, and I was basically back to “normal” – athletic, but curvy, after 2 major injuries and, y’know, living in Suburbia and having to…