Posts tagged ‘career’

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 ...

I’m nearing the end of my PhD and starting to seek jobs, and I’ve been asked over and over again whether I’ll be staying on academia or I’ll be moving to industry. I haven’t signed ...

(Warning: intersectionality problems.) Feminism is no longer about sexism at all: It’s fascinating the extent to which women have been shamed out of even claiming a movement to address sexism. We just aren’t allowed to ...

This is an Ask a Geek Feminist question for our commenters. Questions are now closed, another round will run in early 2011. Here’s my question: How does one deal with feeling guilty for doing well ...

Terri’s post on grooming has a few stories of women whose bosses or mentors have genuinely believed that they were aiming for management or secretarial roles rather than where they were really headed. Deborah: Eventually ...

There’s a couple of interesting new blogs in and around the geek feminist space: Stemming is a new online community and collaborative blog supporting women and girls interested in science, tech, engineering, and math (the ...

FoolishOwl commented: I looked at Gail Carmichael’s blog post, “Quick Thoughts on Pregnancy and Grad School,” and was immediately struck by how the women commenting on it were in general agreement, based on careful thought ...

Anthropologist Biella Coleman just posted “1998 and the Irish Accent is Why I Study F/OSS”. She quotes a rumination by Don Marti on 1998 as a crucial and strange year in tech: …there was all ...