Category Archives: women in tech

The TechnoGirlTalk podcast is up!

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The podcast I blogged about recording the other day has been posted. I was cracking up listening to it. Chris and I had dinner last night with Mark Twomey aka Storagezilla, who was a guest on the Infosmack podcast this … Continue reading

Trading women-in-tech war stories on TechnoGirlTalk

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This week I was invited to participate in the TechnoGirlTalk podcast. Its a new podcast hosted by Sunshine Mugrabi specifically to give women in high tech a place to discuss working in high tech. Its only the second podcast, the … Continue reading

Language that homogenizes creates losers

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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 … Continue reading

We need a root cause analysis of the gender in IT problem

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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 … Continue reading

The power of language – what does sexy mean?

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I knew this post was coming…someone who did not appreciate the views that were expressed in the outside circle session on the lack of women speakers at Pod Camp Boston. I knew it was coming because she posted earlier that … Continue reading

Wrap-Up: Simmons School of Management Leadership Conference

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This past Saturday I attended the Simmons School of Management Leadership Conference. EMC is one of the main corporate sponsors of the event. Here’s my recap of how the day went for me: Opening Remarks In addition to the leaders … Continue reading

Just home from the Simmons Women’s Leadership Conference

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I was able to attend the Simmons Women’s Leadership Conference courtesy of EMC’ Office of Diversity. It was wonderful. I connected with a Senior Manager from my part of the world (Florida), ladies from RSA, ladies from our IT and … Continue reading

Ada Lovelace Day (better late than never!)

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Yesterday was Ada Lovelace Day. I was supposed to write a blog post about a woman in technology that I admire. But schoolwork and end of the quarter work overwhelmed me, and I am a day late with this post. … Continue reading

Will the promise of being in a “sexy, hot” field attract more kids to tech?

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Here is the tweet that started it: That twitter conversation was sparked by this Details article about the so-called Playboys of Tech (my daughter calls these sorts of guys hipsters…). Chrissie was annoyed that there are never any articles about … Continue reading

YOU THROW LIKE A GIRL

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My brothers told me that all the time. I hated it. Sometimes I would try harder to do better, but most of the time I would give up because they would taunt me no matter what I did. Which seems … Continue reading