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Revision as of 13:35, 18 April 2014
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Participants | Becha |
Skills | Community building |
Status | Active |
Niche | Community |
Purpose | Use in other project |
Ladies Night is an initiative to bring more female members to the hackerspace, and to organise activities of interest to women.
Tech Inc Meetings
- Hackerspace Ladies Night, Episode 1 (8 February 2013)
- International Women Day 2013 (8 March 2013)
- International Women Day 2014 (8 March 2014)
- Ladies Night III (5 April 2013)
In Media
http://www.talktoaletta.nu/blog/wat-betekent-ladies-night-amsterdam-hackerspace
Links to other initiatives
Mailing Lists
gca
netggrls
Meet-ups
Geekgirls dinner
Organisations
- rattviseformedlingen.se
Links to resources and news
Women in tech
- Pros and cons for being woman in tech https://medium.com/startup-on-the-road/19ce929c9679
- "For some, "bro" culture offers one explanation for why there are so few women in tech"
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/04/06/technology/technologys-man-problem.html http://www.techmeme.com/140406/p2#a140406p2 …
- March 2014, Agism in Tech: http://www.newrepublic.com/article/117088/silicons-valleys-brutal-ageism
- August 2013: Over-presence of incompetent men ;-) http://blogs.hbr.org/2013/08/why-do-so-many-incompetent-men/
Gender at Conferences
- November 2013: http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/nov/06/four-steps-to-put-an-end-to-all-male-panels-at-conferences
Feminism
- February 2014, https://medium.com/p/6942d29d724 "How to talk about women, as a man"
- (reference to feminist theory within broader society&economy..) http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/mar/26/caring-curse-working-class-austerity-solidarity-scourge?CMP=twt_gu
Women and hackers
- Hacking the Gender Gap: http://www.thehacktory.org/?page_id=2234
Bitcoin community & gender
- "how to explain bit coin to your mom" - hah! http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2014/04/02/business/dealbook/How-to-explain-bitcoin-to-your-mom.html
- January 2014: Women in Tech & Bitcoin http://suitpossum.blogspot.nl/2014/01/crypto-patriarchy-problem-of-bitcoins.html
- Women in Bitcoin: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=140110.0
Gender gap in Science
- http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/priya-shetty/sexual-harassment-in-science_b_4102449.html (October 2013)
Gender gap in Gaming
- (Sept 2013) Gaming community, we need to talk: sexism is a problem: http://devinandrewwhite.com/2013/09/22/gaming-community-we-need-to-talk-again/
women in atheism & sceptic community
Sexism and harassment
- An app for gender equality http://www.theguardian.com/society/2013/oct/27/natascha-mcelhone-casual-sexism
- "The Petrie Multiplier: Why an Attack on Sexism in Tech is NOT an Attack on Men" http://iangent.blogspot.co.uk/2013/10/the-petrie-multiplier-why-attack-on.html (October 2013)
- Links to conferences with anti-haressment policy
- (October 2013) Nosiebridge anti-haressment policy : https://plus.google.com/app/basic/stream/z12cubewzlvsytecs23schrgxrrsy1nsy
- IETF anti-harassment policy
LINK
Coding
- Can This Children's Book Help Make The Internet A Better Place?
- "To my daughter's high school programming teacher" https://www.usenix.org/blog/my-daughters-high-school-programming-teacher (september 2013)
- http://www.cc4g.net/ Coding Club for Girls, UK
- lelacoders: https://n-1.cc/g/donestech+lelacoders
Misc
http://farukat.es/journal/2013/08/694-dear-dave-winer-you-cant-silence-truth
https://n-1.cc/blog/view/1640847/adria-richards-pycon-and-how-we-all-lost-by-amanda-blum
March 2013
http://juliaelman.com/blog/2013/03/21/because-it-works/
https://amandablumwords.wordpress.com/2013/03/21/3/
"be vigilant, make yourselves trustworthy. Every day"