Posts tagged ‘mentoring’

The Haecksen women’s miniconference at linux.conf.au (Brisbane, January 2011) is calling for submissions, closing very shortly on September 24. Abbie Heppe gave a critical review of Metroid: Other M, and the backlash was immense and ...

Her Universe will be offering licensed Star Wars gear specifically for female fans, who thus far have been a tad under-served as a market. See the announcement. Biella Coleman comments on Clay Shirky and WYNC ...

Like a lot of people, I think, I became an instant convert to the cult of Sady when I read her 13 Ways of Looking at Liz Lemon last week. I’m a big 30 Rock ...

This is an Ask a Geek Feminist question for our commenters. In my day job, I’m the teacher librarian at an independent (private) high school in the Midwest. I’m a geek myself, but more along ...

Some of you may have heard the story: When the GNOME folk looked through their summer of code applicants back in 2006, they had 181 applicants… and not a single woman. They decided to do ...

Student applications for Google Summer of Code are opening March 29. Google Summer of Code — yes, bad name for anyone in the southern hemisphere, but you are allowed to apply! — is a project sponsoring Open Source development ...

Sexism at Work: Young Women, NEWSWEEK and Gender: NEWSWEEK was the subject of a gender-discrimination case in 1970. Young women currently working at NEWSWEEK reflect on the case and the current state of the battle. ...