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Written in a New York Times article and summarily paraphrased here,
Elissa Shevinsky can pinpoint the moment when she felt that she no longer belonged. She was at a friend's house watching the live stream of the TechCrunch Disrupt hackathon, when she saw that it opened with two men who developed an app called Titstare. After some banter, one of Titstare's developers proudly proclaimed, "This is the breast hack ever."
Ms. Shevinsky felt pushed to the edge. Women who enter fields dominated by men often feel this way. "It's a thousand tiny paper cuts," is how Ashe Dryden, a programmer who now consults on increasing diversity in technology, described working in tech. Women in tech like Shevinsky and Dryden advocate working to change the tech culture from inside-out, but other women like Lea Verou write that,
' women-only conferences and hackathons cultivate the notion that women are these weak beings who find their male colleagues too intimidating...As a woman, I find it insulting and patronizing to be viewed that way.'
This all being hot on the heels of engineer Julie Ann Horvath's departure from Github as a result of similar concern.
Any of you care to address your own personal experiences or opinions regarding the subject matter; as well as the accuracy of the articles' stories compared to the industry-at-large?
(Score: 2) by SGT CAPSLOCK on Monday April 07 2014, @11:25AM
I think I understand what you're getting at, but I think I should say that you might have misunderstood something...
I'm not advocating anything, especially not a "me first" mentality. Personally, my view is that people would be best served by simply living, loving, and experiencing life in whichever way they think is best.
Other than that, the rest of your argument seems a bit off-topic to me. I'll bite, but I'm confused.
> For the past few thousand years, the voices in that negotiation have been by-and-large male ...
I'm not sure what you're getting at. A couple quick searches on DuckDuckGo show me that there are a grand amount of women in powerful positions who currently do and certainly can influence society right now, right this very minute.
> It's time we listen to them, rather than put them on a pedestal and 'protect' them.
Lots of women love to be "put on pedestals" as you say. Lots of women love to be protected. There have already been many who hate both of those things and who indeed have been listened to already.