Posts tagged ‘diversity’

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: Outside of being a measurement for the presence of oppression, why is diversity a good thing? In a post several weeks ago a geek ...

Why White Men Should Refuse to Be on Panels of All White Men: If white, male elites started saying, I will not participate in your panel, event, or article if it is all about white ...

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 ...

Google Summer of Code applications are open, closing this week (Friday April 8). Check our project advertisements and application tips. Google Announces HITB2011AMS Conference Grant for Women Hackers: This grant is set up to enable ...

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 ...

This is a guest post. Barbara Burford (1944–2010) was a medical scientist; a writer of fiction, plays and poetry; and a lifelong diversity activist. All these things she did with love, skill, panache and unfailing ...

This post was originally published at Restructure! Some female geeks use the discourse of increasing female representation in science, technology, engineering, and math (the “STEM” fields) as a proxy for addressing sexism in geek communities. ...

This post was originally published at Restructure! When top technology venture capitalist John Doerr decides which startup company to invest in, he consciously and deliberately chooses white males over women and racial minorities: “That correlates ...

Neville Park is a queer mixie nerd in Toronto. This post originally appeared at Wild Unicorn Herd. An interview with Palante Tech’s Jack Aponte (a. k. a. Angry Brown Butch) on, well, diversity in Drupal. ...

Trying to do it mostly right most of the time: The Border House‘s rho interviews Failbetter Games’s Alexis Kennedy, primary writer for Echo Bazaar, about the game’s approach to diversity, sexism and racism in a ...

Guest Post by Esra’a from Bahrain. She enjoys hardcore acoustic noise-terror music, and is fortunate enough to be a TED Global Fellow, Echoing Green Fellow, and on the Advisory Board for the European Summit for ...

In my latest Ask a Geek Feminist round (questions still being accepted!), I wrote: If your question boils down to “why are there so few women in science/computer science/mathematics/engineering/physics, and what should we do?”, we’re ...

This is an Ask a Geek Feminist question. Questions are still being taken this round. This one came up on the Python Diversity list: How can we gather data on the gender balance and other ...

This post is being cross-posted on Mackenzie’s blog. Given Terri’s recent post about the same few women always being speakers, I thought this would be a good place to write about how one conference I ...