Posts tagged ‘ask a geek feminist’

What are some ways in which I can avoid rejecting people who suffer from impostor syndrome when they apply for a job?… I don’t want to lose out on quality applicants as they are modest about their achievements and abilities, due to impostor syndrome or otherwise.

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 ...

These are Ask a Geek Feminist questions for our readers. They’re not the same question, but I put them together because they’re related. If you want to distinguish them in comments, call them Q1 and ...

Trigger warning for rape culture rhetoric, and use of rape language as a joke. This is an Ask a Geek Feminist question for our readers: What would a geek feminist do about this sign, which ...

This is a guest post by Katie Zenke. Katie has been writing about children’s books for almost ten years and occasionally writes about them in various places online. She even has a blog that she ...

This is an Ask a Geek Feminist question for our readers: Outside of being a measurement for the presence of oppression, why is diversity a good thing? In a post several weeks ago a geek ...

This is an Ask a Geek Feminist question for our readers: I am a relative newbie in the world of coding. I took two semesters of intro to programming with Java this past school year ...

This is an Ask a Geek Feminist question for our readers: How do you react when people (generally older men) treat us (young women in tech/engineering) as show dogs? I’ve had a number of people ...

Welcome to round 5 of Ask a Geek Feminist! How it works: if you’ve got a question you think a geek feminist could answer, post a comment in reply to this post. (Comments will not ...

This is a question that was posed to the Ada Initiative. It’s a bit out of scope for us right now (we’re focussed on fundraising), so I told Robin Whitney, who posed it, that I’d ...

This is an Ask a Geek Feminist question: When choosing pictures for a conference website from the event held the previous year we have specifically looked for photos that happen to include women, to the ...

Welcome to a special round of Ask a Geek Feminist! There are a few photographers/recorders or event organisers who want to ask us questions about their policies or practices, and don’t feel their questions fit ...

This is an Ask a Geek Feminist question for our commenters. This is the last post from round 4. Round 5 will run in the second half of 2011. I have a 24 year old ...

This is an Ask a Geek Feminist question for our commenters: I work in a research lab with about 15 employees. There are two women, and administrative assistant and me (an engineer) we are getting ...

This is an Ask a Geek Feminist question for our commenters: What startups do geek feminists see as role models for diversity, and why? And, what do people think of the idea of a company ...

This is an Ask a Geek Feminist question: What are some ways in which I can avoid rejecting people who suffer from impostor syndrome when they apply for a job? I’ve recently been promoted to ...