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===Art=== | ===Art=== | ||
Revision as of 21:11, 20 September 2015
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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.
Contents
- 1 Tech Inc Meetings
- 2 Links to other initiatives
- 3 Bechas Writings
- 4 Role models
- 5 Links to resources and news
- 5.1 Increasing the gender diversity
- 5.2 Gender gap in tech
- 5.3 Women and hackers
- 5.4 Gender at Conferences
- 5.5 Feminism
- 5.6 Bitcoin community & gender
- 5.7 Gender gap in Science
- 5.8 Gender Gap in Engineering
- 5.9 Gender gap in Gaming
- 5.10 gender Gap in Movies
- 5.11 women in atheism & sceptic community
- 5.12 Sexism and harassment
- 5.13 Coding
- 5.14 female sources on alternative economy
- 5.15 The other way around: discriminating agains men
- 5.16 Misc
- 6 Racial Diversity
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
Events
User:Becha/Events_2015#WomenInTech
Mailing Lists
gca: http://genderchangers.org/mailman/listinfo/gca
netggrls: "subscribe net-grrls" to Majordomo@wibh.net
http://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/systers
@GenderITorg
@takebackthetech
@WomenWhoCode
@GirlsWhoCode
@DevChix
Feminist Frequency @femfreq
@GlobalTechWomen
Meet-ups
- http://www.meetup.com/Amsterdam-Women-in-Technology/
- http://chunrichoupaal.org/women-in-icts-event-for-women-in-between-jobs/
- http://www.meetup.com/Girl-Geek-Dinner-NL/
Organisations
- (1997! 1st CyberFeminist International @ Documenta X, Kasel, Germany: http://www.medialounge.net/lounge/workspace/cyberfeminisam/DOCS/1/participants.html)
- "Old Boys Network" http://www.obn.org/
Resources
- ICT's for feminist movement building / activist toolkit
- “Zen and the art of making tech work for you”
- Manuals with a gender perspective
- Gendering F/LOSS
Jobs for women
Bechas Writings
Role models
Links to resources and news
Increasing the gender diversity
Gender gap in tech
- 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
- August 2013: Over-presence of incompetent men ;-) http://blogs.hbr.org/2013/08/why-do-so-many-incompetent-men/
- 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!!!!)
- Why are women leaving tech - GoogleDoc by Sue ... http://t.co/s14HKR4sPz
Women and hackers
- Forum with answers to the question: "how to get more women interested in participating in the hackerspace" http://ask.metafilter.com/267368/This-space-unintentionally-left-male-mostly
- First (female) hackers http://www.telegraph.co.uk/history/world-war-two/10810980/Female-codebreakers-reunited-at-Bletchley-Park.html
- Hacking the Gender Gap: http://www.thehacktory.org/?page_id=2234
- 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
- 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
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
- "Congrats, you have an all male panel!" Hof award: http://allmalepanels.tumblr.com/
- How to invite more female speakers:
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
- 10 words all girls should learn http://www.filmsforaction.org/articles/10-words-every-girl-should-learn/
- Where is Feminism in Cyberfeminism? http://www.neme.org/392/cyberfeminism
File:feminist principles of the internet.pdf
File:ICT_2015_Chapter1_Web.pdf
File:ICT_2015_Chapter2_Web.pdf
File:ICT_2015_Chapter3_Web.pdf
File:ICT_2015_Chapter4_Web.pdf
File:ICT_2015_Chapter5_Web.pdf
Art
Bitcoin community & gender
- http://fusion.net/story/124655/why-bitcoins-male-domination-will-be-its-downfall/
- http://fusion.net/story/47172/the-young-stars-of-bitcoin/
- http://motherboard.vice.com/read/the-anarchist-hacker-bitcoin-would-rather-not-talk-about (Amir Taaki)
- Not about gender, but Charlie Stross on why is BitCoin bad ;-) http://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2013/12/why-i-want-bitcoin-to-die-in-a.html
- "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://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)
- 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
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
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 http://www.ietf.org/iesg/statement/ietf-anti-harassment-policy.html
& procedure: https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-farrresnickel-harassment/
- Harassment in science/academia: http://www.wandering-scientist.com/2015/06/playing-game-rigged-against-you.html
Coding
- "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
- Gendering FLOSS: http://libregraphicsmag.com/files/libregraphicsmag_2.2_lowquality.pdf (31 MB)
- 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
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
- "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://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"