Posts tagged ‘Tech industry’

What have you done to make your geek events more welcoming?

Ask a Geek Feminist: how do you figure out how to solve programming problems that aren’t covered in your classes?

Ask a Geek Feminist: If you’re a woman in CS, does it ever get better? If it got better for you, where and how did that happen?

When Chad Whitacre announced that he’d just released Testosterone, “the manly testing interface for Python,” a friend of his called him out, asking “what, exactly, makes it manly?” After a brief, polite back-and fourth, Whitacre slept on it, and apologized.

Last week APM’s radio program, Marketplace, did a story with Freakonomics about the patent gap between men and women. Women are responsible for only about 7.5% of patents in the US. That doesn’t surprise me. ...

I need to stop assuming that everyone else knows more about the tech than I do. Our sense of our own merit gets calibrated by feedback from the outside world, but sexism and impostor syndrome get in the way of that calibration. All the tentacles of this issue — the prejudice, the tokenization, the distorted self-perception, the discounting of one’s achievements and comparative lionization of others’ — bother me because they mess with proper judgement.

Linkspammed today: being a fan of problematic sources, being a black geek, and being a woman investor.