Category: Diversity

Recovered from the Wayback Machine. Women have gone to space. Women have led nations. Women have died for their countries. Women have invented, pioneered, and broken barriers and boundaries. They’ve had babies and buried husbands while they did these things, too. And on the eve of the very overdue day when a woman will lead […]

Recovered from the Wayback Machine. The conference organizer for Office 2.0 has added three more women speakers. Actually, three very impressive women speakers. To address those who think that achieving diversity means giving up quality–you’re a putz. Speaking of putz, Dennis Howlett wrote the following in comments at Robert Scoble’s weblog related to this issue: Sadly to say Robert, […]

Recovered from the Wayback Machine. Both Tara Hunt and The Head Lemur have written on the Office 2.0 conference and the fact that of the 53 speakers, only one is a woman. Exactly one. This isn’t a conference on esoteric technology where the participants rush out and say, ‘There are no women who do X’, whatever ‘X’ is. This is a […]

Recovered from the Wayback Machine. Two excellent from Sour Duck: 21st Century Employment: For Many it’s all work, no benefits which is disturbingly true. Links to stories related to August 26, Women’s Equality Day. I don’t, and won’t, celebrate any holiday which promotes the belief that women are ‘equal’. The day celebrates women getting the vote in […]

Recovered from the Wayback Machine. Ethan sent me a link to Smart Bitches who Love Trashy Novels who writes about an article that I just now noticed is making all the rounds of the feminist weblogs. And then some. The article is in Forbes and the premise was that men shouldn’t marry career women (sorry, ‘career’ girls). Why? Because we’ll […]