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.
Archive for the ‘Equity’ Category
Two 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.
Graduating in a Recession
Saturday, January 3rd, 2009Via Serguei Zinine, a draft paper looking at the effects on students' financial prospects of graduating during a recession. Charts with results start on pg. 47. Later: Diane Horton pointed out that they only analyzed men; the word "women" comes up only once in 73 pages. I'm embarrassed that I didn't ...
Change the Rules, Change the Outcome
Wednesday, September 24th, 2008Via Andy Lumsdaine, some practical ideas about how to make open source development less unwelcoming for women. I'd be very interested in hearing from projects that have tried some of these out.
Science in the 21st Century
Thursday, September 11th, 2008I'm at the "Science in the 21st Century" conference at the Perimeter Institute today. There are 32 people in the room right now: 23 are male and 9 are female, but only one is non-Caucasian, which pretty much matches the numbers in the picture from the conference dinner last ...
Nerd Girls on TV
Thursday, July 17th, 2008The Nerd Girls are supposed to be on the Today show tomorrow (Friday July 18) --- anyone have details?
File Under “Really Not Getting It”
Friday, May 16th, 2008The New York Times ran a piece today on the under-representation of women in the sciences---in the Fashion and Style section, of course, because hey, women don't read the business pages, do they? *sigh* Later: a friend pointed me at this piece in the Boston Globe, titled "The Freedom to Say ...
Google Mentoring Videos
Sunday, April 20th, 2008Via Lin Zhou: From: Susan Dorward Google has started offering coaching to most of their employees, and I've been lucky enough to be approved as one of their coaches. They recently sponsored a series of talks given by their coaches and they have posted videos of these talks up on YouTube. ...
