Posts tagged ‘Tech industry’

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.

Linkspam returns in an all-new series. IT workplaces, sexy superheroines and more.

Links for you! Is Wikipedia more or less gender-balanced than Encyclopædia Britannica? Is outing powerful tech figures OK? And how to praise girls.

More Wikipedia gender stats, encouragement to attend tech events, femme fatale gaming violence as porn, and more.

This is an Ask a Geek Feminist question for our readers. When interviewing for a job (as the applicant), how do you select for a healthy culture? What unpleasant traits (e.g. narcissism, sexism) do you ...

Do women and startups mix? Was Battlestar Galactica that good? Is dressing up in Leia’s slave costume empowering? All linkspammed today.

Technology protest isn’t just about “leave if you don’t like it”. What services do you stick with and protest about? Which ones have you left/not signed up for despite temptation?

A mathematics Olympian, 1960s computer programmers, a writer who is so sick of tokenism he’d rather be erased, and more!

Women in genre fiction, a non-physicist at CERN, open journal access as a feminist issue, and more!

Black and WTF: photographs of suffragettes. In 1912, Scotland Yard detectives bought their first camera to covertly photograph suffragettes. A bit of an oldie, but relevant to our recent Google+ discussions: Falsehoods Programmers Believe About ...

This is an Ask a Geek Feminist question for our readers: How do you react when people (generally older men) treat us (young women in tech/engineering) as show dogs? I’ve had a number of people ...

A few people want us to denounce Adriana Gardella’s interview of Audrey MacLean Why Women Have an Advantage in Technology from on high… but there are some major life crunches around here, let me tell ...

Railsbridge Rails Outreach Workshop for Women & Friends, Ed. Español July 22-23 (San Francisco): One of the objectives of the Rails Bridge Open Workshops is diversity, with that in mind we… [aim] to bring more ...

Grants to attend AppSec USA 2011: For the first time, the OWASP Foundation is gathering sponsors for a program to increase the participation of women in the field of application security. The grants are for ...

This is an Ask a Geek Feminist question for our commenters. This is the last post from round 4. Round 5 will run in the second half of 2011. I have a 24 year old ...