March 24 is Ada Lovelace Day
Thursday, March 11th, 2010March 24 is Ada Lovelace Day---please take a moment to blog or tweet about women in technology or science whom you admire.
Archive for the ‘Equity’ Category
March 24 is Ada Lovelace Day---please take a moment to blog or tweet about women in technology or science whom you admire.
Women in Startups
Sunday, February 28th, 2010Sarah Tavel has a good data-backed post about the general dearth of women in startups, and how the gender balance in a startup changes if the CEO is female. It would be fascinating to repeat the measurements for open source projects...
Times Nine in a Year
Wednesday, February 24th, 2010A talk I'd really like to see: Moving the Needle: How the San Francisco Ruby Community got to 18% In January 2009, the monthly San Francisco Ruby meetings averaged 2% women. In January 2010, they averaged 18%. What happened in a year to make such a big difference? Over the last year, Sarah ...
Organizing a Tech Event?
Thursday, October 29th, 2009The only downside of last week's DevDays in Toronto was the more-abysmal-than-usual gender ratio: it was at least 100:1, and may well have been worse. So, if you're organizing a tech event of any kind, check out geekspeakr.com --- it's a new directory of women in tech who can speak ...
Asking Yourself Hard Questions
Tuesday, October 6th, 2009Another great post from OkCupid analyzing the effect of race on response rates at their online dating site. The most impressive thing (to me) is that they're willing to ask and answer the question in public---it takes courage.
Discussing the Balance
Sunday, August 30th, 2009I accumulated a few links this summer about gender equity in computing, particularly in open source. The two that bear re-reading are: Robert Kaye reports on Kirrily Robert's OSCON keynote "Standing Out in the Crowd". Five years after Michelle Levesque and I looked at gender ratios in open source, the average ...
Dru Lavigne on Women in Open Source
Monday, June 29th, 2009Thought-provoking post from Dru Lavigne about the scarcity of women in open source: To me, equating "code" with "open source" is so early 90s. The closest analogy I can think of is equating "doctors" with "health care". While doctors tend to get the glory, there is a whole ecosystem of paramedics, ...
A Selection of Thoughts and a Checklist
Thursday, April 30th, 2009Two good links: A Selection of Thoughts from Actual Women about what working in open source is like for them. The Male Programmer Checklist, which keeps getting longer.
The Courage of His Convictions
Tuesday, April 28th, 2009Mike Gunderloy announced this morning that he's resigning from the Rails Activists group: ...Anyone who cares to take the time to actually talk to the women who are a part of the open source community will have no trouble getting an earful about how challenging it can be to participate...[p]eople like ...
Gender Gap in Startups Worse in IT than Biotech
Thursday, April 9th, 2009Two interesting posts from Noam Wasserman summarizing his research into the gender gap in startups. No surprise, it's bigger in IT than in biotech. His work focuses on the Massachusetts and California tech hubs; I'd be very curious to see data for Toronto, London/Cambridge, and other centers.