Ladies Night

Projects
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)

historically important

ALV_2013_04_06 & ALV_2013_04_06/Minutes

In Media

http://www.talktoaletta.nu/blog/wat-betekent-ladies-night-amsterdam-hackerspace

Links to other initiatives

GenderIT.org

Mailing Lists

gca

netggrls

Twitter

@GenderITorg

@takebackthetech

@WomenWhoCode

Meet-ups

Geekgirls dinner

Organisations

• http://www.stichtingnimf.nl/about-nimf?lang=en

• rattviseformedlingen.se

Jobs for women

• http://www.huntingher.de/

Bechas Writings

• http://becha.home.xs4all.nl/hackerspaces-hiding-behind-openness.txt

• http://becha.home.xs4all.nl/gender-gap-in-hackerspaces.txt

• http://becha.home.xs4all.nl/missing-female-voices-hackerspaces.txt

Links to resources and news

Gender gap in tech

• http://www.newstatesman.com/laurie-penny/on-nerd-entitlement-rebel-alliance-empire

• brogrammers may not be macho, but that’s not all there is to it// How French High Theory and Dr. Seuss can help explain Silicon Valley’s Gender Blindspots https://medium.com/technology-and-society/2f1fe84c5c9b

• 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

• http://www.womenandtechnology.eu/digitalcity/projects/w4ict/homepage.jsp?dom=AAABECDQ&prt=BAAFLAHN&men=BAAFMLPT&fmn=BAAFLALI

• August 2013: Over-presence of incompetent men ;-) http://blogs.hbr.org/2013/08/why-do-so-many-incompetent-men/

• http://adainitiative.org/2013/08/is-impostor-syndrome-keeping-women-out-of-open-technology-and-culture/

• Women leaving STEM jobs http://thinkprogress.org/economy/2014/02/13/3287861/women-leaving-stem-jobs/

• the impostor syndrome http://www.nytimes.com/2012/04/03/science/giving-women-the-access-code.html

• http://www.catehuston.com/blog/2014/10/01/male-allies-and-ghc/ (AND MANY MANY LINKS FROM THERE!!!!)

• http://www.catehuston.com/blog/2013/10/02/three-phases-of-technical-women/

• Why are women leaving tech - GoogleDoc by Sue ... http://t.co/s14HKR4sPz

Gender at Conferences

• http://forgenderequityatconferences.blogspot.ca/

• November 2013: http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/nov/06/four-steps-to-put-an-end-to-all-male-panels-at-conferences

• How to invite more female speakers:
  • http://bit.ly/ITWomenSpeakers
  • @DevChix
  • http://speakerinnen.org/en

Feminism

• http://geekfeminism.org/blog/

• February 2014, https://medium.com/p/6942d29d724 "How to talk about women, as a man"

• Funny : https://bitbucket.org/FeministSoftwareFoundation/c-plus-equality

• December 2013: http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/dec/07/anonymous-problem-with-feminism

• (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

• http://www.slate.com/blogs/xx_factor/2011/08/10/anti_feminist_market_theories_of_sexuality_fail_to_explain_the_d.html

• http://www.smh.com.au/comment/tanya-plibersek-why-im-a-feminist-20141112-11ktdn.html

• 10 words all girls should learn http://www.filmsforaction.org/articles/10-words-every-girl-should-learn/

Women and hackers

• First (female) hackers http://www.telegraph.co.uk/history/world-war-two/10810980/Female-codebreakers-reunited-at-Bletchley-Park.html

• http://blog.hackerspaces.org/2014/01/19/diversity-and-the-hacker-scene/

• http://makezine.com/2011/07/05/what-does-it-mean-to-be-a-woman-hackerspace-member/

• http://modelviewculture.com/pieces/the-rise-of-feminist-hackerspaces-and-how-to-make-your-own

• Hacking the Gender Gap: http://www.thehacktory.org/?page_id=2234

• December 2012: http://asherwolf.net/dear-hacker-community-we-need-to-talk/101/

• Hacked Off ¨The hacker-activist community seems to leave no safe place for women. Rosie J. Spinks asks: Can it grow up?¨

https://medium.com/the-magazine/4c423793a831

• http://dpi.studioxx.org/en/hacktivism-art-practicing-life-and-computer-hacking-feminist-activism

• http://dpi.studioxx.org/en/feminist-hackerspaces-safer-spaces

• http://dpi.studioxx.org/en/hacking-care-attention-bien-%C3%AAtre-et-politique-de-l%E2%80%99ordinaire-dans-le-milieu-hacktiviste

• http://roadtociso.wordpress.com/2013/03/13/sexism-in-hacker-culture-or-the-day-i-discovered-i-was-a-man/

• http://media.ccc.de/browse/conferences/camp2011/cccamp11-4487-she_hackers-en.html

• http://blogs.wsj.com/digits/2014/04/28/in-italy-a-first-modest-all-female-hackathon/

• Why am I not a maker: http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2015/01/why-i-am-not-a-maker/384767/
  • and a discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8935966

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

• http://theumlaut.com/2013/06/18/the-goddess-of-the-gender-gaps/

• Women in Bitcoin: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=140110.0

Gender gap in Science

• http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/unofficial-prognosis/2012/09/23/study-shows-gender-bias-in-science-is-real-heres-why-it-matters/ (September 2014)

• http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/priya-shetty/sexual-harassment-in-science_b_4102449.html (October 2013)

• http://www.netmagazine.com/features/primer-sexism-tech-industry#null

• http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2013/03/130325-elise-andrew-i-fking-love-science-women/

• Why aren’t more girls choosing maths and science at university? (March 2015) http://oecdeducationtoday.blogspot.fr/2015/03/why-arent-more-girls-choosing-maths-and.html

Gender Gap in Engineering

• http://www.iom3.org/events/engineering-success-national-women-engineering-day

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/
• and then GamerGate... enough said...

gender Gap in Movies

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bechdel_test

women in atheism & sceptic community

http://www.slate.com/articles/double_x/doublex/2012/10/sexism_in_the_skeptic_community_i_spoke_out_then_came_the_rape_threats.html

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

http://geekfeminism.wikia.com/wiki/Conference_anti-harassment/Adoption#Makerspaces.2FHackerspaces.2FCommunity_workshops

• (October 2013) Nosiebridge anti-haressment policy : https://plus.google.com/app/basic/stream/z12cubewzlvsytecs23schrgxrrsy1nsy

• IETF anti-harassment policy

LINK

• http://www.newstatesman.com/blogs/internet/2012/07/what-online-harassment-looks

• http://www.michele.me/blog/archives/2012/10/behaving-like-cavemen-isnt-cool/

• http://thoughtsonliberty.com/sexism-in-geek-culture-and-libertarianism

Coding

• Can This Children's Book Help Make The Internet A Better Place?

http://www.fastcompany.com/3025659/creation-stories/can-this-childrens-book-help-make-the-internet-a-better-place

• • http://www.girlswhocode.com/about-us/

• • http://blog.ted.com/2013/01/29/10-places-where-anyone-can-learn-to-code/

• • http://www.codecademy.com/

• "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

• http://www.ncwit.org/resources/girls-it-facts

• lelacoders: https://n-1.cc/g/donestech+lelacoders

• blogs: https://n-1.cc/blog/group/27166/all

• http://www.girlswhocode.com/

• http://www.computerworld.com.au/video/556997/here-how-200-women-coders-showed-they-can-hack-it/

female sources on alternative economy

Naomi Klein, THE SHOCK DOCTRINE http://www.naomiklein.org/shock-doctrine

Arundhaty Roy: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arundhati_Roy#Further_reading

The other way around: discriminating agains men

• http://goodmenproject.com/featured-content/femmephobia/

• "Reverse sexism and reverse racism are not real" http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/goldsmiths-students-union-diversity-officer-says-she-cannot-be-racist-or-sexist-to-white-men-because-she-is-an-ethnic-minority-woman-10244520.html

Misc

• Gender equality in hunter-gatherer tribes: http://www.sciencemag.org/content/348/6236/796

• http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/09/04/girls-tweeting-not-twerking-their-way-to-power/

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

https://n-1.cc/blog/view/1644541/sexisme-chez-les-geeks-pourquoi-notre-communaute-est-malade-et-comment-y-remedier-parmarlard

March 2013

http://venturebeat.com/2013/03/21/sendgrid-under-ddos-attack-after-its-developer-evangelist-complains-about-sexual-jokes-at-pycon/

http://juliaelman.com/blog/2013/03/21/because-it-works/

https://amandablumwords.wordpress.com/2013/03/21/3/

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2309812/The-brain-scans-reveal-men-REALLY-dont-understand-women.html

• http://www.shakesville.com/2009/08/terrible-bargain-we-have-regretfully.html

"be vigilant, make yourselves trustworthy. Every day"