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A comment on the Social Engineering article

Here’s my comment:
I really enjoyed your article, Leslie. I completely identified with you when you said, “in an effort to be the change I wish to see in the world, I’ve distanced myself from questions of gender roles in my work.” I do this, as do many other women in technical fields.
Your experience is a […]

Women in Tech series from O’Reilly

It’s finally out! http://www.oreillynet.com/womenintech/
I’m not sure what day exactly my article will be published, but the first one, titled Social Engineering came out today.

we need a hero

I spoke with a woman from a university that said she thought what we needed was a hero. Somebody that would inspire people outside our industry and rally the people inside it already. And they should still be living
I named a few possibilities - kc klaffy, Allison Randal, Evi Nemeth. If you’ve got […]

moving on from experiencing to changing the structure

I attended a “women in open source community ” BoF last night. I think that the intention for the BoF was good. But despite the efforts of the moderator, the discussion looped repeatedly on personal problems, and didn’t get very far into the meat of what we might really do to get more women into […]