August 31, 2006 – 12:30 pm
UPDATE 9/2/06 10:50 am: Check out my proposed marketing solution to the where are the women problem.
The “where are the women” question has arrived in the hallways of the U.S. Supreme Court:
Everyone knows that with the retirement of Justice Sandra Day O’Connor, the number of female Supreme Court justices fell by half. The talk of […]
I don’t feel bad that I didn’t attend BloggerCon. The only session I read about that stuck in my mind was the one called “users in charge” that set users against developers. As though developers are all of one mind, of one temperament, of one type. As though developers aren’t themselves users.
The idea that only […]
What, in your mind, does a typical software developer look like? Act like?
Male? Twenty-something? Without family responsibilities? Arrives to the office after 9 am but works until late into the night, thanks to endless cokes or cups of coffee?
At a party last night I connected with a woman who had just left software development after […]
Dave Winer:
I’m so tired of people talking about how their mother wouldn’t understand something. I’ve been hearing this for 20 years, and it’s sexist and ageist, and wrong and unfair, and how about let’s get rid of this offensive idea. I’d never say that about my mother, who has a PhD, and is pretty smart. […]
December 30, 2005 – 2:03 pm
The latest Pew study of Internet usage suggests that different people use the Internet in different ways and in different amounts. You get the feeling that Pew would like to have us believe that the most salient way of dividing up the online population is into male and female since they title their study “How […]
December 28, 2005 – 7:48 pm
Why are there so few women working on open source software projects? From the August 8th issue of Computerworld:
Only about 2% of the thousands of developers working on open-source software projects are women, a number that women already involved in the open-source movement want to see increased.
That issue was the topic of a panel discussion […]
December 21, 2005 – 10:15 am
No time for a complete post of my own so here’s what I’ve been reading and chewing on about women in computing:
The Boston Globe looks at the gender gap in computer science.
Shelley Powers calls for more disagreement and debate about women’s visibility and participation in tech work. She announced that the SxSW Women and Visibility […]
