So if you know me – you know I took an exciting journey to the Canadian Wilderness to attend #bitnorth. Here is the description of #bitnorth: Bitnorth is an informal, eclectic gathering North of Montréal. The rules are simple: if you attend, you have to present. Subjects range from the technical to the sublime, from [...]
Tag archives for women in IT
Blogging my homework: Teaching IT should not be gendered
This is cross-posted from my class response on Blackboard to the reading Not just a dollhouse: what The Sims2 can teach us about women’s IT learning. I tried to keep an open mind as I read this article. I really did. I have to tell you it was hard when the article about how a [...]
category: EME6507
Language that homogenizes creates losers
In my last post, I talked about the Gervais Principle and the Company Hierarchy diagram: Notice the huge bottom layer of “losers”. Losers isn’t necessarily this sort of loser: But as Venkatesh Rao (inventor of the Gervais principle) explains, loser is more in the economic sense. You have this huge mass of people who give [...]
category: women in tech
We need a root cause analysis of the gender in IT problem
The statistics speak for themselves. 24% of professional IT jobs are held by women, even though 57% of professional jobs are held by women In 2008, 56% of all AP test-takers were female, 51% who took the calculus AP test were female, but only 19% of the Computer Science test takers were female. In 2008, [...]
category: women in tech
What do you do for a living?
I shared a link on Twitter today that I got from the Systers list. The link was to this Dr. Dobbs article, which has since been edited. Basically it’s an article about gnuplot, and there was a link in the first paragraph to a naked lady. Gah. I shared the link and pointed out that [...]
category: work
