About this blog
Trying to figure out a way to laugh through the pain together. As it turns out, stuff here applies to women and other groups in software, STEM, and sometimes just the world. Feel free to:
If you ask a question from your Tumblr account, I’ll respond directly to you; otherwise I’ll put it on the Answers page.
If you prefer, you can also get updates through Twitter: @FemSoftwareEng
Further reading
- Programmers Being Dicks: Awesome Tumblr
- The Geek Feminism Wiki: A resource for and about women in geek communities
- The Ada Initiative: Supporting women in open technology and culture
- The Anita Borg Institute for Women and Technology
Great Twitter accounts
Links from posts
- The tech sector a meritocracy? I wish—Feb 2013
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2013/feb/07/tech-sector-meritocracy-jemima-kiss
- Letter to a future woman in tech—Feb 2013
http://futurewomanintech.com/
- Speaking up—Feb 2013
http://www.sazzy.co.uk/2013/02/speaking-up/
- How Privilege Manifests in Well-Intentioned Men—Feb 2013
http://programmersbeingdicks.tumblr.com/post/42840790792/how-privilege-manifests-in-well-intentioned-men
- Because it seems necessary to say this: addressing men’s rights activists—Feb 2013
http://gingerhaze.tumblr.com/post/42930521288/because-it-seems-necessary-to-say-this
- Heather Arthur’s replace library—Jan 2013
http://harthur.wordpress.com/2013/01/24/771/
- No Willy No Woman’s Hour—Jan 2013
http://mulqueeny.wordpress.com/2013/01/24/no-willy-no-womans-hour/
- CES Doesn’t Think Booth Babes Are A Problem. Here’s Why They’re Wrong—Jan 2013
http://www.forbes.com/sites/connieguglielmo/2013/01/30/ces-has-no-formal-complaints-about-booth-babes-time-to-change-that/
- “Overreacting” considered harmful—Jan 2013
http://raganwald.posterous.com/overreacting-considered-harmful
- Revenge of the Nerds: White Male Geeks Hack Sexism, Racism—Nov 2012
http://jezebel.com/5961702/revenge-of-the-nerds-white-male-geeks-hack-sexism-racism
- A primer on sexism in the tech industry—Oct 2012
http://www.netmagazine.com/features/primer-sexism-tech-industry
- Study shows gender bias in science is real. Here’s why it matters.—Sep 2012
http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/unofficial-prognosis/2012/09/23/study-shows-gender-bias-in-science-is-real-heres-why-it-matters/
- No, but seriously… what ABOUT the menz?!—Aug 2012
http://freethoughtblogs.com/crommunist/2012/08/01/no-but-seriously-what-about-the-menz/
- Who Gets To Be a Geek? Anyone Who Wants to Be—Jul 2012
http://whatever.scalzi.com/2012/07/26/who-gets-to-be-a-geek-anyone-who-wants-to-be/
- Wollstonecraft: A children’s book featuring Ada Lovelace and Mary Shelley—Apr 2012
http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/airshipambassador/wollstonecraft
- “I’m sorry you feel that way”: Fauxpology not accepted—Mar 2012
http://www.xojane.com/relationships/im-sorry-you-feel-way-fauxpology-not-accepted
- Lighten Up—Mar 2012
http://therealkatie.net/blog/2012/mar/21/lighten-up/
- Stats, data, and answers, as to why there are so few women in technology fields—Oct 2011
http://www.rachelappel.com/stats-data-and-answers-as-to-why-there-are-so-few-women-in-technology-fields
- 15-minute writing exercise closes the gender gap in university-level physics—Nov 2010
http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/notrocketscience/2010/11/25/15-minute-writing-exercise-closes-the-gender-gap-in-university-level-physics#.UR12m1pxuz4
- A Chat with Aaron Swartz: misogyny in tech—May 2007
http://blogoscoped.com/archive/2007-05-07-n78.html
- Stereotype threat among schoolgirls in quasi-ordinary classroom circumstances—2007
http://www.mendeley.com/research/stereotype-threat-among-schoolgirls-quasi-ordinary-classroom-circumstances-1/
- Lawrence Summers blaming the shortage of women in STEM partially on biological differences—Jan 2005
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lawrence_Summers#Differences_between_the_sexes
