There's generally a lot of talk about how the tech community isn't friendly enough to women, right? Too must testosterone, too much condescension upon exhausted stereotypes. Too much hair in all the wrong places.
But hey, we're doing alright -- we're doing better. So many more programming-for-women workshops. In Montreal we've have some amusing oversights by various tech communities (in particular some offense about grandmas http://bit.ly/jxiqwL ) that have been called out on quite immediately and fixed out of sheer respect.
And now even great stories like Marissa Mayer becoming CEO of Yahoo... Oh, wait. Scanning the headlines of HN today I saw this: "Marissa Mayer's looming hormonal crisis" as well as all the other bull that's been flying helplessly around in the last several days.
So this is a call out to all of us. Don't devolve. Hold on to the mildly acceptable progress we've made in our field and keep it progressing. Otherwise we might as well invest in some fire hoses.
But hey, we're doing alright -- we're doing better. So many more programming-for-women workshops. In Montreal we've have some amusing oversights by various tech communities (in particular some offense about grandmas http://bit.ly/jxiqwL ) that have been called out on quite immediately and fixed out of sheer respect.
And now even great stories like Marissa Mayer becoming CEO of Yahoo... Oh, wait. Scanning the headlines of HN today I saw this: "Marissa Mayer's looming hormonal crisis" as well as all the other bull that's been flying helplessly around in the last several days.
So this is a call out to all of us. Don't devolve. Hold on to the mildly acceptable progress we've made in our field and keep it progressing. Otherwise we might as well invest in some fire hoses.