Sat Jan 05 2013 15:53 Girl Geeks and Boy Kings | Dissent Magazine:
Women, Facebook, unpaid emotional labor, and selling ourselves
Tue Nov 20 2012 23:19 https://latticeqcd.net/fedorasocial:
A conversation recently in the fedora-social IRC channel.
Tue Nov 06 2012 20:13 http://kaigou.dreamwidth.org/476793.html:
read the comments re women, tech, and differential power
Fri Aug 17 2012 23:15 https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Netha_Hussain/WikiWomenConf_India:
12 and 13 January 2013 in Pune, India, a conference for Wikimedia & open source women
Fri Jun 22 2012 01:37 http://www.dogsandshoes.com/2012/06/getting-women-and-other-under-represented-people-to-speak-at-your-conference-is-hard-so.html:
Specific tips
Tue May 08 2012 13:43 TRK - Getting more women to your meet-up :
personal invitations, advertise somewhere new, have a clear harassment policy & enforce it
Sun Mar 11 2012 19:39 The Kingdom of the Blind by Maureen F. McHugh | Lightspeed Magazine:
Short scifi story from the perspective of a female programmer facing marginalization
Wed Feb 08 2012 01:09 Requiem For Astronaut Janice Voss:
"Requiem For Astronaut Janice Voss" "As payload commander of two shuttle missions, Janice was responsible for paving the way for experiments that we now perform on a daily basis on the International Space Station" Dead at 55.
Sat Jan 14 2012 01:18 proposed tech conference anti-harassment policy:
Wikimedia Foundation works towards adding an anti-harassment policy for technical events and discussion goes pretty well
Sat Dec 24 2011 04:16 The Future of Academic Research | eaves.ca:
Rosie Redfield a top 10 science newsmaker of 2011 for doing open collaborative science (blogging about trying to replicate results)
Tue Nov 29 2011 12:53 One of the Boys - boy'sclub man'sworld business | Ask MetaFilter:
tips on surviving & thriving in male IT environments
Sun Nov 27 2011 11:17 Writing Like a White Guy:
"When I say �privilege� here, I mean the condition of not needing to consider what others are forced to consider...Writing is as much the process of arriving at the point of composition as it is the act of composition itself."
Sat Nov 26 2011 21:27 http://olegvolk.net/blog/2011/04/23/women-in-computing/:
"He asked me for suggestions on how to proceed without creating additional discrimination against boys in the process. Any advice?"
Sun Nov 13 2011 16:25 PhDoula: Women, video games, and stereotype threat:
"Women, video games, and stereotype threat "
Thu Nov 03 2011 18:09 http://www.newstatesman.com/blogs/helen-lewis-hasteley/2011/11/comments-rape-abuse-women:
several women's experiences of online harrassment in response to their writing
Thu Nov 03 2011 18:06 Internet misogyny — Crooked Timber:
discussion of the disproportionate share of ugly attacks & harrassment women get when they write online
Thu Oct 06 2011 01:25 http://sourcemaking.com/design_patterns/object_pool:
unnecessarily sexualised code example
Wed Oct 05 2011 00:14 a schemer at jsconf.eu -- wingolog:
a male attendee at a conference expresses discomfort with sexuality-related elements of the conference
Tue Oct 04 2011 23:51 Conversation - Identi.ca:
discussion/flamewar on Identi.ca over the alleged demerits of the GNOME Women's Outreach Program (according to its detractors, it's sexist)
Tue Sep 20 2011 23:56 What advice would you give to a young female STEM graduate? - female engineer STEM | Ask MetaFilter:
What advice would you give to a young female STEM graduate who's facing sexism?
Sat Apr 16 2011 23:19 http://www.themarysue.com/why-a-geek-site-for-women/:
might be good to watch
Tue Mar 01 2011 12:21 Natalie Portman, Oscar Winner, Was Also a Precocious Scientist - NYTimes.com:
Remember all those Slashdot trolls who talked about Natalie Portman? Did they know she was a supergeek?
Fri Nov 19 2010 05:01 Anti-Bullying Starts in First Grade - Portrait of an Adoption:
women who like Star Wars and boys who are fine with girls liking Star Wars
Mon Oct 18 2010 21:52 Krystal Ball's New Statement About The Scandalous Photos Released Online | The Frisky:
and she designs educational software!
Thu Oct 14 2010 11:23 staranise: Automated bingo cards, get 'em while they're hot :
sweet! 'I wrote that program with a little under a month of first-year University-level computing science under my belt. I was in that class at all because fandom, Dreamwidth and the AO3, said, "Coding isn't scary. Anyone can learn it." That's something I've tried to carry forward with this code.'
Tue Apr 20 2010 13:04 http://terriko.dreamwidth.org/28709.html:
"The best women's groups aren't about separation and segregation: they're about providing an incubator for people who need a leg up to be part of the wider community."
Tue Apr 20 2010 13:04 A rant about humans:
"Maybe we can figure out how to make the workplace work for lots of different types of people...."
Tue Apr 20 2010 13:02 Stop talking, start coding:
canned food drive metaphor - ouch!
Fri Apr 16 2010 16:02 http://innovators.vassar.edu/innovator.html?id=67:
Dr Asprey - student, then friend of Grace Hopper. Turned Vassar into "one of the first liberal arts colleges in the U.S. to establish a computer center and to offer courses in computer science... and the second college in the country to acquire an IBM System/360"
Fri Apr 16 2010 15:59 http://collegerelations.vassar.edu/2007/2497/:
CS pioneer Winifred Asprey wrote in 1967: "Familiarity with a computer will be as commonplace a demand as familiarity with a foreign language presently is."
Thu Apr 08 2010 22:24 Yahoo! Labs Research Presentations, February 2010:
a Columbia Women in CS trip to Yahoo! Labs NYC; female researcher Sihem Amer-Yahia presented
Wed Apr 07 2010 16:54 Ventilations Or Revelations?:
Munmun De Choudhury, Indian-American woman doing interesting CS research on homophily
Tue Mar 23 2010 04:16 Civil Service — Crooked Timber:
a reminder of the awesome Bunnatine Greenhouse
Thu Mar 18 2010 14:51 Southern California Review:
in case I want a paper copy of the excellent "Shit Went Down" by a pal
Tue Mar 16 2010 15:00 http://aqueductpress.com/newsletter/newsletter-win09.pdf:
Aqueduct Press newsletter interviews women writing & editing in India
Sat Mar 06 2010 03:54 Murray’s Blog » Blog Archive » Openismus Wants More Trainees:
German software development firm wants to hire, mentor women & minorities, train them to develop FLOSS
Mon Feb 15 2010 04:42 Can I say this? — Swfblag:
headdesk headdesk headdesk
Wed Feb 10 2010 23:38 GNOME Revamps and Renews Outreach Program for Women :
roundup of some GNOME outreach to women; comments are fail
Wed Feb 10 2010 15:33 Paige Williams – Journalism, etc. - Finding Dolly Freed - Possum Living:
Bio of nature, science, and rocketry geek Dolly Freed
Tue Feb 09 2010 14:26 The professional masquerade - The F-Word:
SO GLAD tech isn't entirely like this (or maybe I just haven't risen high enough to see it)
Tue Jan 26 2010 17:14 An Ongoing, Erratic Diary:
on the difficulties of new parenthood
Sun Jan 24 2010 04:38 Why ask for an unskilled, not-yet-involved comaintainer?:
Christine Spang requests entirely new contributors for some FLOSS maintainer mentee work, gets far more responses than expected
Fri Jan 22 2010 19:16 MathFiction:
Female mathematicians in fiction, as catalogued by Alex Kasman's great MathFiction project
Tue Jan 19 2010 15:31 Maia's Eclectic Ministry of Introspection :: The Zoo of Rampant Sexism :
Maia Kozheva says: A Russian Linux site permits & approves horrendously sexist, demeaning, and objectifying comments, & the community at large doesn't notice because of language barrier
Wed Jan 13 2010 16:26 Call for Participation » Grace Hopper Celebration 2010:
"Collaborating Across Boundaries"
Tue Jan 12 2010 21:56 http://blog.lebedel.net/index.php?post/2010/01/12/WoMoz-at-FOSDEM:
The nascent Women in Mozilla group will be at FOSDEM, are figuring out their roadmap & plans, and need your suggestions
Thu Jan 07 2010 22:44
On public discussion and safety » philosophical geekess :
why we need #ubuntu-women, & how to balance needs for privacy, safe-space assistance, and transparency
Thu Jan 07 2010 13:49 Women in Open Source – Q&A with Myself « Marina'z Blog:
a roundup of benefits to women & to open source to getting more women involved, activities in FLOSS, barriers, TODOs
Thu Jan 07 2010 13:46 Ill-mannered Grandiloquence » Blog Archive » Diversity at what cost?:
talking about diversity in FLOSS for its own sake as opposed to for instrumental goals, + worries about taking the fun out of the community
Thu Dec 17 2009 19:25 Jane Silber to take over as Canonical CEO:
new Canonical CEO: Jane Silber
Tue Nov 17 2009 20:18 Rupa MFA dt thesis blog:
Rupa DasGupta's MFA blog - she's going to use eye-tracking technology to investigate & reveal the male gaze, partially as internalized by women
Tue Oct 27 2009 22:10 October 2009: Nell Scovell on David Letterman | vanityfair.com:
via maevele on dw. How are Colbert/Daily Show different?
Tue Oct 27 2009 21:20 Call For Participation | fosdem.org:
a month left to submit most talks to FOSDEM 2010 (Brussels)
Tue Oct 27 2009 21:03 SUN: forty years of mentoring:
mentoring works, if it's systematic
Sat Oct 24 2009 12:55 pandagon.net: on romance novels:
women learn to objectify ourselves -- thoughts
Sat Oct 24 2009 12:52 Making Light: Permission to suck:
Freedom to look stupid leads to getting smarter, part 2.
Sat Oct 24 2009 12:51 Where does the moon come from? Or, Launch Pad day 5 :
Freedom to look stupid leads to getting smarter, part 1.
Fri Sep 18 2009 19:35 Simira's sewing services:
Karianne's sewing in the UK
Sun Aug 30 2009 16:19 Personism » Blog Archive » List of Women Speakers for Your Conference:
if GeekSpeakr is too limited
Wed Jul 29 2009 16:12 While !Finished » #EAFail Link Roundup:
link roundup in eafail
Thu Jul 02 2009 15:03 Bitch Ph.D.:
list of criteria there - scary
Tue Jun 23 2009 04:01 The Women Of McSweeneys.net - The Rumpus.net:
for when i need to laugh heartily
Sun Jun 07 2009 17:25 lcohen: thoughts on lesbians and science and stories:
on necessary narratives
Sun May 10 2009 02:31 fine lines - Jezebel:
evidently there are a few redeeming pockets in the Gawker empire
Tue Apr 21 2009 17:28 EST pandagon.net - review of Pledged:
why would the nat'l force conformist reorgs on offbeat instances of the franchise? because admin officials are the ones who LOVE the old ways & old people-pool, & new/diff people contaminate that. cf marriagestuff
Mon Apr 06 2009 15:31 EST Ineligible Bachelors: Indian Men Living in U.S. Strike Out - WSJ.com:
Yet another market I sidestepped
Sun Mar 29 2009 16:51 EST Heidi, Geek Girl Detective:
fairly addictive
Sun Mar 15 2009 08:13 EST dykestowatchoutfor.com » Blog Archive » out with the old:
Alison Bechdel thanks Ganesha for helping her declutter
Thu Mar 12 2009 23:07 EST http://csunplugged.org/:
to check out -- CS thinking activities
Wed Feb 18 2009 16:37 EST Lorem Ipsum: Blazoning:
so THAT'S what that is
Thu Feb 12 2009 14:04 EST http://www.tor.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=blog&id=11323:
totally
Wed Feb 04 2009 09:28 EST Should we hire academics who are parents? — Crooked Timber:
Substitute "tech startups" for "academe"?
Fri Nov 21 2008 02:58 EST She's Geeky East: Dec 5-7 2008, NYC - DevChix - Blog Archive:
Can I go to this neat local unconference?
Sat Nov 08 2008 12:20 EST I hope you already have, but if not… « Yes We Can (hold babies).:
re-finding an old colleague from Salon: truly, Obama brings us together
Mon Nov 03 2008 05:39 EST Fair Game - Was There a Loan It Didn’t Like? - NYTimes.com:
case study in ethics, conformism, perverse incentives, risk...
Wed Sep 24 2008 09:57 EST Mel Chua | Geek Speak Women:
Yay! People should totally get Mel to speak at their conferences!
Mon Sep 22 2008 13:31 EST Katie's Computing Stuff:
Kate (Katie) Lucas on software development, the tech industry, etc.
Sat Aug 09 2008 09:16 EST Brutal Women: The Tudors:
"One of the most despicable lies in history is that women were just always passive slaves to men. That, historically, women had no power and no voice and contented themselves with their lot in life. If that was true, nobody would have burned witches..."
Fri Aug 01 2008 07:57 EST » Negative externalities aren’t: some thoughts on networks and ethics:
Measure goodwill, not just as a catchall on the balance sheet, but as a force that magnifies or reduces the value of your communities. But even employees aren't on the balance sheet.
Fri Aug 01 2008 07:53 EST Galatea Associates, LLC — Careers:
recommended by a Syster
Fri Jul 18 2008 20:54 EST Communities Directory: Happytown USA:
Happytown, USA does not allow LGBT folks? Not Happytown to me!
Sat Jul 12 2008 08:28 EST Blue book essays and the Martha Complex: on time management, test-taking, and letting go of perfectionism at Hugo Schwyzer:
I am so lucky that I learned early in high school to spend a full quarter or third of my timed essay periods on prewriting/outlining. And always allot 5 min at the end for QA! A missing "not" can be quite embarrassing.
Sat Jun 28 2008 00:05 EST » MythTV - DevChix - Blog Archive :
the article that got Leonard over the hump and building a PVR
Thu Jun 05 2008 06:11 EST Bitch Ph.D.:
"those who decry it as card-playing are annoyed by the fact that we all won't play by their rules of pretending that everything is equal now, since we can all vote and everyone will pay lip service to racism and sexism being Bad."
Tue Apr 22 2008 15:40 EST valhenson: Supporting assertive women:
Support assertive women; acknowledge your sexist impulses and then try to overcome them. Includes useful link re: proactively encouraging women's job satisfaction
Fri Jan 04 2008 14:05 EST Official Google Blog: Baby steps to a new job:
actually heartwarming
Mon Nov 12 2007 22:52 EST Freeloading Man:
Franzen's obtuse remark at the end of the first para makes me want to avoid his work forever. Men shouldn't write 1st person re females? WTF?
Sun Oct 28 2007 17:10 EST Brutal Women: Together:
Feminism is gender egalitarianism is for everyone
Thu Oct 25 2007 09:32 EST Husband head in wife’s hand - The Telegraph:
terrible story about the costs of making your family migrate
Wed Oct 17 2007 09:20 EST Politeness and Authority at a Hilltop College in Minnesota - New York Times:
more thoughts on women and the posture of authority
Wed Sep 19 2007 22:58 EST First Impressions From An Office:
Oh Lord so true. Via brutalwomen.
Wed Sep 05 2007 16:34 EST I Invent the Future » Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing (GHC 2007):
I really want to attend, but a) money b) classes the first and last day of the conf
Tue Jul 31 2007 09:15 PST The Washington Monthly:
Kevin Drum, Salon, and $10,000
Tue Jun 12 2007 04:20 PST » Letâs All Evolve Past This: The Barriers Women Face in Tech Communities - DevChix - Blog Archive :
Do I get a freer pass because people seeing my name think I'm a guy?
Fri Jun 08 2007 18:20 PST blog.pmarca.com: How to hire the best people you've ever worked with:
Marc Andreessen and Paul Graham believe that startups shouldn't bother hiring people who care about anything but career
Thu May 31 2007 06:15 PST http://tieguy.org/blog/2007/05/29/discuss-amongst-yourselves/#comment-21829:
connecting Grice with perceptions of arrogance and the tact filter
Mon May 28 2007 07:20 PST Bitch Ph.D.:
"UCLA department had a secret reserve of money that they used to supplement the salaries of male faculty members only." The comments are right on.
Thu Apr 26 2007 08:59 PST Coaching Geeks from Grace Hopper conference:
how to get over self-destructive Feelings: Impostor, Loner, Outsider & Behaviors: Humble, Silent Analyst, Accomodator
Sun Apr 22 2007 19:04 PST http://infohost.nmt.edu/~val/review/flosspols.pdf:
How awesome is Val Henson? Can't help but remember mustachioed Kara Thrace in the "must have beards" pictures
Tue Apr 10 2007 20:37 PST Women in FLOSS:
via OtherMag blog. I never knew the LinuxChix logo was so awesome!
Thu Feb 22 2007 12:32 PST HOWTO negotiate your salary and benefits - for women:
Val Henson's tips on getting better deals on yourself
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