Ladies Night
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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 Improving privacy and security
- 5.3 Gender gap in tech
- 5.4 Women and hackers
- 5.5 Gender at Conferences
- 5.6 Feminism
- 5.7 Bitcoin community & gender
- 5.8 Gender gap in Science
- 5.9 Gender Gap in Engineering
- 5.10 Gender gap in Gaming
- 5.11 gender Gap in Movies
- 5.12 women in atheism & sceptic community
- 5.13 Sexism and harassment
- 5.14 Coding
- 5.15 female sources on alternative economy
- 5.16 The other way around: discriminating agains men
- 5.17 Misc
- 6 Gender Equality
- 7 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
- The Ada Lovelace Day Education Pack -- to help teachers tackle the gender stereotypes that hold both girls and boys back, and to particularly address girls’ relationship to and confidence with STEM subjects.
Jobs for women
Bechas Writings
Role models
http://www.wired.com/2015/10/margaret-hamilton-nasa-apollo/
Links to resources and news
Increasing the gender diversity
- For example: free tickets for a conference: http://2015.arrrrcamp.be/blog/2015/09/23/arrrrcamp-2015-diversity-program/
Improving privacy and security
- https://re-publica.de/session/including-gender-new-approaches-privacy-and-digital-security (Tactical Tech)
- https://re-publica.de/en/session/deep-lab-art-and-hacking-post-snowden-age (Deep Lab was founded to examine how privacy, security, surveillance, anonymity, and large-scale data aggregation are problematized in the arts and society. The Deep Lab is an all women research collaborative who are an international group of new-media artists, information designers, data scientists, software engineers, hackers, writers, journalists and theoreticians. )
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
- Dear haker community we need to talk http://asherwolf.net/dear-hacker-community-we-need-to-talk/101/ December 2012
- 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
- 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
- Hacking the Gender Gap: http://www.thehacktory.org/?page_id=2234
- First (female) hackers http://www.telegraph.co.uk/history/world-war-two/10810980/Female-codebreakers-reunited-at-Bletchley-Park.html
- 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
Art
Anti-capitalism
gendered, hierarchical division between “production” and “reproduction” is a defining structure of capitalist society and a deep source of the gender asymmetries hard-wired in it. There can be no “emancipation of women” so long as this structure remains intact.
feminist ideas are being twisted to serve neoliberal, capitalist ends.
The solutions for women will not be found in parity in a trade economy. The answer is not that women should be paid, it’s that men should not.
International network for recognition & payment for all caring work, and the return of military spending to the community starting with women the main carers everywhere.
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"
Gender Equality
- An app for gender equality http://www.theguardian.com/society/2013/oct/27/natascha-mcelhone-casual-sexism
- Funny : https://bitbucket.org/FeministSoftwareFoundation/c-plus-equality
In bands
- Sex equality can explain the unique social structure of hunter-gatherer bands
- http://www.sciencemag.org/content/348/6236/796.abstract
- http://www.the-scientist.com/?articles.view/articleNo/43000/title/Gender-Equality-in-Hunter-Gatherer-Groups/
- http://www.theguardian.com/science/2015/may/14/early-men-women-equal-scientists
- http://www.immortal.org/8977/sexual-equality-study/
- https://redflag.org.au/article/gender-equality-prehistoric-society-not-21st-century-australia