BurningbirdRecovered from the Wayback Machine. Google’s motto is “Do no Evil”. We have to assume the company includes getting pregnant as an act of evil, according to a recently filed job discrimination lawsuit. ZDNet writes: Christina Elwell, who was promoted to national sales director in late 2003, alleges her supervisor began discriminating against her in […]
Recovered from the Wayback Machine. The discussion following my posting of When We are Needed last week split into two different directions: one focused on the discussion of women, competition, and need; one focused more on the tech job market in this country and the factors that are driving both men and women out of the field. […]
Recovered from the Wayback Machine. Recently, the Information Technology Association of America released a report examining the state of diversity in IT in the United States and the results are less than comforting: IT is rapidly becoming less diversified, rather than more. According to the study the *number of women in IT-related positions dropped by 20% in the last […]
Recovered from the Wayback Machine. I hadn’t intended to write any more on BlogHer, the blogger conference focused on women. At least, I hadn’t planned on it until I read Chris Nolan’s post today, trying to encourage Kevin Drum to attend. If you don’t know who Kevin Drum is, he’s a political weblogger/journalist who is assumed to have […]
Stop. Stop right now. I won’t point to the sites, and I won’t repeat the exact words. But now is not the time to point to a ‘wiki’ setup to collect information about the bombs in London, and smugly say how much better it is at covering the news than the New York Times. Now […]