by Lauren | 9 Dec 2014 | Community, Technology
Girls & women are underrepresented in technology – in part because we don’t recognize & encourage their coding potential. Here are some signs to watch for. A few months ago, I asked our kid’s fourteen year-old babysitter about her favourite...
by Lauren | 1 Jun 2014 | Curiosity, Self-awareness, Technology
This week, I was inspired and moved by some healthy truth-telling on the internet. From Google finally releasing its (not-so-great) diversity data (which it’s been refusing to share despite years of requests from journalists), to flagship online publication A...
by Lauren | 26 Sep 2013 | Curiosity, Technology, Values
Most of y’all who work in the tech industry already know how earlier this month, we witnessed a couple of epically sexist pratfalls: There was the whole Titstare debacle at TechCrunch Disrupt, and then the next day, Pax Dickinson got fired from his position as...
by Lauren | 16 Apr 2013 | Business, Technology, Values
A thoughtful reader recently asked about the role of male allies in solving the gender imbalance in the tech industry: As a guy in the tech industry, I honestly don’t know how to fix most of the issues… I do want to help, but like many other guys I don’t...
by Lauren | 13 Feb 2013 | Business, Technology
Everybody’s talking about Etsy’s success in recruiting women engineers – they’ve increased the number of women in their engineering department by 500% in one year – and that’s awesome to see. I wrote a post about them last summer, discussing...
by Lauren | 23 Jan 2013 | Business, Technology
I’ve written here before about the ongoing puzzle of improving the ratio of women to men in the tech sector. It’s an issue with many angles. There’s an acknowledged “pipeline problem” – a lack of women graduating from university with...
