women in computer science
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You Get What You Incentivise
→: You Get What You IncentiviseIt’s about 18 months since my friend Tracy wrote this post pointing out that whilst the tech industry evangelises data for decision making, there is very little available when it comes to diversity numbers. And about 12 months since we started seeing companies release their numbers. Helped along by radical shareholder action from Jesse Jackson Sr.…
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The Woman Speaker Slot
→: The Woman Speaker SlotI read a lot about how important it is to get more women speakers (and PoC!) at tech conferences, and I agree it’s important. But one of the things I’ve found as a speaker, who is also a woman, is that I get invitations to fill what I refer to as “the woman speaker slot”.…
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Book: Women in IT: Inspiring the next generation
→: Book: Women in IT: Inspiring the next generationIn the way of a lot of books that are a collection of blog posts, Women in IT (Amazon) is a bit disjointed and the writing varies. It’s also very promoting of the BCS which is not an organisation that I am involved with – I had to take a course at uni for accreditation…
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5 Books to Read Instead of Wadhwa
→: 5 Books to Read Instead of WadhwaI’m quoted in this New York Times article, which is awesome. And one of the things I like about it, is that it calls out that the published research doesn’t actually back up some of the points Wadhwa has been making. So it seemed timely to write up some books that I think would be…
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Honey, I Left the Tech Industry
→: Honey, I Left the Tech IndustryNearly a year ago I wrote The Day I Leave The Tech Industry. That’s not when I published it… I sat on it for months. I worried that I was revealing too much of myself, that I would put it out there and… crickets. That I would feel even more alone that I already did. That’s…
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Flawed Humans
→: Flawed HumansAs I walked through Barcelona, I came across a tiny hidden museum dedicated to Dalí. As I admired the work, I pulled up his Wikipedia page to learn more about the artist. And discovered that he refused to decry the Nazis, and had been kicked out of the Surrealist movement in part because of it…
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Audio of How To Undermine Women Whilst Being “Nice”
→: Audio of How To Undermine Women Whilst Being “Nice”In response to this: I made this: Original
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Finding More Women on Social Media
→: Finding More Women on Social MediaEvery so often I find my twitter handle in a list that forms a response to some guy saying “who are some women I should follow on social media?”. Do these things work? I don’t know. I’ve compared notes with other women on how long it lasted when a prominent VC asked that question (for me, <24…
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Problems of Statistical Significance
→: Problems of Statistical SignificanceI think one of the biggest problems for diversity, and for accountability of diversity, is one that we never talk about. Statistical significance. Imagine there is a company with 1000 engineers, of which 20% are women. The company declares their numbers proudly, saying they are beating the latest US graduation rate for women in Computer…