BurningbirdThe importance of supporting diversity
Rogers Cadenhead just wrote on another conference with no women among the speakers. It’s rather alarming how the ‘new’ technologies seem to be completely devoid of women, yet I know there are women working in these fields. Did we forget the club handshake? Miss out on when the secret decoder rings were sent around? Anyway, I have […]
Recovered from the Wayback Machine. Thanks to Ethan, via Radioactive Banana, a report on women in the sciences and engineering disciplines at universities: Forty years ago, women made up only 3 percent of America’s scientific and technical workers, but by 2003 they accounted for nearly one-fifth. In addition, women have earned more than half of the bachelor’s degrees awarded […]
Recovered from the Wayback Machine. Oh god, please, won’t someone notice the irony of this post, and the accolades heaped on this white boy? I can’t be the only human being on this planet who sees this as absolute proof of everything we’ve been saying for years about the invisibility of women. I am silenced. I have nothing more […]
Recovered from the Wayback Machine. Interesting. The Ajax Experience no longer has the dubious distinction of have no women in its speaker list. It now has Molly Holzschlag. Since I know absolutely squat about JavaScript and XMLHttpRequest other than what they do, it’s rather humorous I’d get picked up for such a seriously geeky conference as […]
Recovered from the Wayback Machine. Interesting. The Ajax Experience no longer has the dubious distinction of have no women in its speaker list. It now has Molly Holzschlag. Since I know absolutely squat about JavaScript and XMLHttpRequest other than what they do, it’s rather humorous I’d get picked up for such a seriously geeky conference as […]