Posts tagged ‘role models’
2010.09.22 CompSci Woman: Looking for stories of women in computer science (2)
My friend Cate and her friend Maggie have started a blog called CompSci Woman that I think many of you will enjoy reading, and hopefully some of you in computer science will be interested in ...
Full Story »2010.09.10 Geekspiration of the fictional kind (59)
Here’s an Ask a Geek Feminist question for our readers (questions still being taken): Reading Rudy Simone’s Aspergirls prompted me to crystallise this question: where are the female role models for young geek women? I’m ...
Full Story »2010.01.09 Linkspamming ’round the clock (9th January, 2010) (8)
Felicia Day is not pleased with Vanity Fair‘s condescending portrayal of herself and other female social media entrepreneurs. Role Models and Stereotypes: discussing the comparative helpfulness in attracting women to a field of both questioning ...
Full Story »2009.09.28 Names, glorious names (19)
Some time back, I wrote: We [on the LinuxChix lists] also had a long-standing problem articulating what it was that led to the extreme gender imbalance in Free Software development and many of its user ...
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