Archive for August, 2011

More Wikipedia gender stats, encouragement to attend tech events, femme fatale gaming violence as porn, and more.

[Trigger warning for harassment, threatening violence against women] A few years ago, a wonderful woman and prominent tech blogger named Kathy Sierra was driven offline because the the readers of a hate website called MeanKids ...

Submit a Wednesday Geek Woman to highlight in advance of Ada Lovelace Day.

Women’s security scholarships, clothing dilemmas portrayed, sexism in geek culture broadly, and more.

This is an Ask a Geek Feminist question for our readers. When interviewing for a job (as the applicant), how do you select for a healthy culture? What unpleasant traits (e.g. narcissism, sexism) do you ...

Apparently game company Good Old Games' booth at PAX prime this year featured booth grandmas passing out cookies. I was worried the PAX coverage would just make me sad that I couldn’t make it this ...

Maybe once a month, at a “girl geek” event, or once a year at a women-focused event at a conference, can technical women enjoy relief from a mental burden that they may not even consciously realise they are carrying. It is not the world’s hugest burden by any measure, but it exists, and can keep us self-silencing and self-doubting.