Archive for August, 2009

Thanks to everyone who participated in the Where are all the men bloggers? thread, and a big “Welcome” to those who are new here. I’ve just shut down comments on that thread because a) the ...

Anna Martelli Ravenscroft writes On trust and diversity, some excerpts follow: I have , otoh, experienced that sense of mistrust – not about males -but more often about women, and mostly, female neurotypicals ... What ...

Borrowing both the term “quick hit” (ie, short post) and a thought from Lauredhel of Hoyden About Town: I’m a bit bogged-down in contemplating the oft-recurring trope – accepted in so many places as a ...

When I look around my Google Reader feeds, I see so many insightful, intelligent political and technical blogs by women, but hardly any by men. For instance, I read Shakesville every day for US and ...

This is a remix of a post by the same name I made after running a BOF on attracting women to open source. One of the most interesting suggestions I’ve heard on how to get ...

Several of the front page posters here are participating in discussions on the Python diversity email list, a list created by Python community member Aahz to discuss diversity problems in the Python programming language community. ...

A comment over on the Geek Feminism wiki asked whether we aren’t damaging the community by documenting sexism. I don’t want to get too 101 on our fine blog, but I do want to talk ...