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

Events

2016:

• https://www.wikimedia.de/wiki/Ladies_that_FOSS (29.10.2016, Berlin)
• http://thefword.nl/dayprogramme/not-your-room-tonight-panel-discussion-on-the-importance-of-safer-spaces-and-partial-exclusion
• Hacking Feminism in LAG, Amsterdam, 2016: https://wiki.laglab.org/Hacking_Feminism

2015

• Hacking Feminism in LAG, Amsterdam, 2016: https://wiki.laglab.org/Hacking_Feminism
• CCC camp https://events.ccc.de/camp/2015/wiki/Session:IncreaseGenderDiversity
• User:Becha/Events_2015#WomenInTech
• Exhibition — IT began with Ada. Women in computer history, 2 September 2015 to 10 July 2016, Paderborn, Germany http://www.hnf.de/en/sonderaustellungen/preview-ada-lovelace.html

Mailing Lists

gca: http://genderchangers.org/mailman/listinfo/gca

netggrls: "subscribe net-grrls" to Majordomo@wibh.net

http://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/systers

Twitter

@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/

• http://genderchangers.org/

• http://donestech.net/

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

• http://ignite.globalfundforwomen.org

• http://rattviseformedlingen.se

• http://bit.ly/ITWomenSpeakers

• http://speakerinnen.org/en

• http://GenderIT.org

• http://portal-beta.systers.org

• http://www.girlsintech.nl

• http://Girleek.net

• http://www.diversitymatters.it/

• http://techmums.co/

• http://www.diversitymatters.it/

• http://www.womeninc.nl/

• http://railsgirls.com

• https://djangogirls.org

• http://www.deeplab.net/

• http://findingada.com/
  • http://findingada.com/resources/organisations/

Resources

• ICT's for feminist movement building / activist toolkit
  • http://www.donestech.net/ca/news/icts_feminist_movement_building_activist_toolkit

• “Zen and the art of making tech work for you”
  • https://gendersec.tacticaltech.org/wiki/index.php/Complete_manual

• Manuals with a gender perspective
  • https://gendersec.tacticaltech.org/wiki/index.php/Manuals_with_a_gender_perspective

• Gendering F/LOSS
  • http://libregraphicsmag.com/files/libregraphicsmag_2.2_lowquality.pdf / http://libregraphicsmag.com/files/libregraphicsmag_2.2_highquality.pdf

• https://flossmanuals.net

• 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

• 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.
  • http://findingada.com/resources/resources-for-schools/

• Using Card Decks in Teaching Computing Concepts or just ways to promote Women in CS : http://www.cs.duke.edu/csed/wikipedia/cardsusing.html

• "Guiding Principles" = prevention of abuse and dealing with abuse when it happens: Lika_Guiding_Principles

• Lectures from a conference: No Permission No Apologies http://www.media.mit.edu/events/no-permission/overview

Jobs for women

• http://www.huntingher.de/

Books, articles, references written by women

Female_experts

• Vesna's collection of Female_experts on:

alternative networks and commons | Critique of the mainstream networks | hackers culture & ethics & history & (hack)tivism | Technology & society, digital human rights & Internet Governance | engineering & networking | alternative economy, against capitalism | Climate Change | feminism

• http://www.shesource.org/

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

• http://becha.home.xs4all.nl/hackerspaces-patriarchy-equality.html

Role models

Lists

Very detailed list with names:
https://wiki.techinc.nl/index.php/Ladies_Night/women_in_history_of_STEM 

• http://www.notabletechnicalwomen.org/ // http://www.cs.duke.edu/csed/wikipedia/cards.html
• https://www.takebackthetech.net/playing-cards
• Writing Wikipedia Pages for Notable Women in Computing http://www.cs.duke.edu/csed/wikipedia/howto.html
• 2015: http://www.theguardian.com/guardian-professional/women-leadership-blog/gallery/2015/jun/22/10-of-the-best-female-role-models-in-tech-in-pictures
• 2016: https://medium.com/@internetsociety/the-brilliant-creative-gutsy-women-in-tech-b451e96b39a5#.3cyz2dlwz , http://www.bbc.com/news/in-pictures-35705391
• 2016: http://n2women.comsoc.org/10-women-in-networkingcommunications-that-you-should-know/2016-10-women-in-networkingcommunications-that-you-should-know/
• 2017: times list of "Firsts": http://time.com/collection/firsts/4921998/firsts-full-list

Personal list

• • https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evi_Nemeth
  • Electra (mesh networking)
  • Karin Spaink (journalist, activist, survivor)
  • Ursula K. LeGuin (science-fiction writer)
  • Heather Marsh (economist, activists, blogger)
  • http://www.spaceanswers.com/space-exploration/the-first-woman-in-space-valentina-tereshkova/

And more WOMEN'S VOICES: Female_experts

Links to resources and news

Increasing the gender diversity

• Tips from CCC Camp2015 https://events.ccc.de/camp/2015/wiki/Session:IncreaseGenderDiversity
  • * Fiona's talk: https://events.ccc.de/camp/2015/Fahrplan/events/6774.html & THE VIDEO: https://media.ccc.de/v/camp2015-6774-for_women_in_tech_do

• For example: free tickets for a conference: http://2015.arrrrcamp.be/blog/2015/09/23/arrrrcamp-2015-diversity-program/

• How to get more women to the hackahton: https://medium.com/hacker-paradise/how-we-got-47-female-applicants-for-our-hacker-retreat-430b8a13a6fc

• Be a better ally https://medium.com/girls-who-code/hey-men-just-wanting-more-women-in-tech-does-not-make-you-their-ally-307a3078893b#.bgmztm3lt

• "Be more Than Binary" - Deb Verhoeven: 'Has anyone seen a woman?', Digital Humanities Conference - 22 July, 2015, Sydney, Australia
  • (pdf) https://wiki.techinc.nl/index.php/File:BeMoreThanBinary.pdf
  • http://speakola.com/ideas/deb-verhoeven-has-anyone-seen-a-woman-2015

• Have "exclusive" spaces: yes/no: http://thefword.nl/dayprogramme/not-your-room-tonight-panel-discussion-on-the-importance-of-safer-spaces-and-partial-exclusion

• https://ep2015.europython.eu/conference/talks/diversity-we-are-not-done-yet
• http://www.roguelynn.com/lmgtfy/

• Ally training by Valery Aurora:
  • https://frameshiftconsulting.com/ally-skills-workshop/
  • https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2016/nov/02/silicon-valley-sexism-diversity-valerie-aurora-frame-shift
  • https://blog.valerieaurora.org/2013/12/31/trying-to-get-paid-to-work-on-diversity-in-tech-read-this/
  • Slides: https://frameshiftconsultingdotcom.files.wordpress.com/2016/06/ally-skills-workshop-slides-europe.pdf
  • https://frameshiftconsultingdotcom.files.wordpress.com/2016/05/allyskillsworkshophandout-europe1.pdf

• Addressing the unconscious bias: https://rework.withgoogle.com/guides/unbiasing-raise-awareness/steps/watch-unconscious-bias-at-work/

• https://motherboard.vice.com/read/what-happened-when-i-pushed-myself-to-interview-more-women

• example : 4 out of 5 team members are women: https://medium.com/winnie-labs/when-women-engineer-b7bfd6837e58#.eq11bsa80

• https://civic.mit.edu/blog/rahulb/being-an-ally-to-women-in-tech-a-personal-audit

• Talk from Lynn Root (Spotify) at EuroPython 2015: https://ep2015.europython.eu/conference/talks/diversity-we-are-not-done-yet

• https://automattic.com/diversity-and-inclusion/

• https://medium.com/institutional-diversity/m%C4%81ori-female-and-i-tech-a797e2fc9f18#.6l30day2q

• https://medium.com/@hadrad1000/how-do-i-ally-being-an-ally-to-women-in-technology-73b70fb86a98#.kuayota9a

• https://kendraalbert.com/Kendra%20Ally%20Skills%20Presentation%2010-1.pdf

• https://trishagee.github.io/post/what_can_men_do/

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

• http://makezine.com/2015/12/10/still-talking-gender-stem-ada-lovelaces-200th-birthday/

• 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

• http://www.motherjones.com/mojo/2014/05/read-letter-women-tech-industry-sexism

• http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2015/jul/13/technology-women-gender-inequality

• Resources: https://gendersec.tacticaltech.org/wiki/index.php/Main_Page

• https://medium.com/@piazza/hoping-to-hire-superstar-female-engineers-e461cb7e0398

• http://www.nytimes.com/2015/10/11/opinion/sunday/what-really-keeps-women-out-of-tech.html

• https://medium.com/@nrrrdcore/the-stories-of-women-in-tech-that-we-may-never-hear-7379f502fb52

• http://www.salon.com/2013/09/17/how_dudebros_are_ruining_the_tech_industry_newscred/

• http://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/reasons-you-were-not-promoted-that-are-totally-unrelated-to-gender

• http://msbusiness.com/2016/01/university-trying-to-attract-more-women-to-technology-fields/ (stem)

• Why women don't edit wikipedia: http://suegardner.org/2011/02/19/nine-reasons-why-women-dont-edit-wikipedia-in-their-own-words/
  • gender gap in wikipedia http://www.nytimes.com/2011/01/31/business/media/31link.html
  • http://boundary2.org/2016/03/09/wikipedia-woman-problem/

• http://www.fastcompany.com/3058388/the-future-of-work/why-the-gender-leadership-gap-is-so-much-worse-for-women-of-color

• http://www.fastcompany.com/3050043/strong-female-lead/how-to-end-the-office-housework-gender-bias

• motherboard 2016 april: https://t.co/aiYwNufHPi

• https://motherboard.vice.com/read/inside-berlins-queer-tech-festival-unit

• Tip: do blind auditions! "gender, race or even where applicants went to school aren’t part of the hiring calculus." http://www.cbsnews.com/news/when-tech-firms-judge-on-skills-alone-women-land-more-job-interviews/

• It's not meritocracy
  • http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2016/07/the-war-on-stupid-people/485618/

• Data centres.. http://www.datacenterknowledge.com/archives/2016/09/13/data-center-industry-problem-many-men/

• Male Privilege... https://medium.com/@tingeber/on-male-privilege-and-networks-437a1ad1e51e#.ap962w64d

• http://www.sarahmei.com/blog/2015/02/01/the-fosdem-conundrum/

• https://newrepublic.com/article/128795/hacking-technologys-boys-club

Programming/FLOSS

• Outreachy -> also google-summer-of-code
• Ladies that FOSS
• Rails Girls Summer of Code
• Open Tech School

Women and hackers

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

• http://becha.home.xs4all.nl/hackerspaces-patriarchy-equality.html

• 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

• https://motherboard.vice.com/read/female-hackers-still-face-harassment-at-conferences

• 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

• http://access-space.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/Barriers-to-womens-involvement-in-hackspaces-and-makerspaces.pdf

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

• 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

• 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

• https://medium.com/@oxbloodruffin/feminist-hacktivism-a-discovery-2bfaecd04331

• http://motherboard.vice.com/read/an-oral-history-of-the-first-cyberfeminists-vns-matrix

• Deep Lab http://motherboard.vice.com/en_ca/read/the-all-women-hacker-collective-making-art-about-the-post-snowden-age
  • http://studioforcreativeinquiry.org/projects/deep-lab

• This is what a hacker looks like: http://linnytu.com/hacker

Gender Equality 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

• "Congrats, you have an all male panel!" Hof award: http://allmalepanels.tumblr.com/

• How to invite more female speakers:
  • http://bit.ly/ITWomenSpeakers
  • http://speakerinnen.org/en
  • Conference by only women called KATIE https://katieconf.xyz/
  • Check out these Ladies_Night#Organisations
  • Tweet to these Ladies_Night#Twitter

• November 2016: RIPE meetings!
  • talk slides & video
  • article! https://labs.ripe.net/Members/shane/measuring-diversity-at-ripe-meetings

• May 2017: RIPE74: Workshop & plenary session on Increasing Diversity
  • Video https://ripe74.ripe.net/archives/video/164
  • Slides https://ripe74.ripe.net/presentations/154-Diversity-RIPE74v2.pdf

• Diversity Task Force!
  • Article on RIPE Labs https://labs.ripe.net/Members/agowland/diversity-discussions-at-ripe-74
  • EtherPad for collaboration http://etherpad.tools.ietf.org:9000/p/ripe-diversity-tf-2017
  • Mailing List Archives https://www.ripe.net/ripe/mail/archives/diversity/
    • Subscribe: https://lists.ripe.net/mailman/listinfo/diversity

• https://medium.com/@tingeber/on-male-privilege-and-networks-437a1ad1e51e#.bnk6pbtax

• "sailor mercury @sailorhg : .@ghc you cannot claim to be for women in tech when you won't compensate your speakers for travel and lodging, let alone the cons ticket"

• https://subfictional.com/how-could-github-announce-an-all-male-conference-line-up-the-same-week-it-shares-results-from-an-oss-demographics-survey-with-3-women/

Feminism

• http://geekfeminism.org/blog/

• http://geekfeminism.wikia.com/

• 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

• 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/

• http://www.transmediale.de/content/commoning-the-networks-a-feminist-methodology-i

• Where is Feminism in Cyberfeminism? http://www.neme.org/392/cyberfeminism

• https://georgiebc.wordpress.com/2014/05/01/witches-and-how-they-are-silenced/

• http://esc.mur.at/de/werk/feminist-server

• http://everydayfeminism.com

• http://www.genderit.org/articles/feminist-principles-internet

File:feminist principles of the internet.pdf

• On the Idea of a Feminist Programming Language http://www.uncomputing.org/?p=303

• https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/thinking-differently-feminists-questioning-gender-politics-tickets-25109547332

• http://feministing.com/2016/04/25/feministing-reads-the-spitboy-rule-tales-of-a-xicana-in-a-female-punk-band/

• https://broadly.vice.com/en_us/article/no-mans-land-how-to-build-a-feminist-utopia

• http://qz.com/692535/we-sold-feminism-to-the-masses-and-now-it-means-nothing/

• https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/nov/01/woman-feminist-shout-down-ruby-tandoh

• https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/jan/09/not-a-feminist-move-on-men-women
  • "feminism is a movement that seeks to achieve equal rights for women. This focus is necessary, because we live in a world of historically and culturally inscribed female disadvantage. "
  • "Most of the feminists I know care about how gender inequality affects men. Of course they do – they're egalitarians. "
  • Men: "You don't have to be a feminist. There are plenty of ways to be awesome without working towards equal rights for women."
  • "please, if you are worrying about what feminism will do without you, stop. The feminist movement does not need you. It's doing a pretty incredible job of tackling female disadvantage without pandering to reluctant allies."

• Sisterhood https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/oct/22/naomi-wolf-feminists-twitter-abuse

• https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/oct/15/should-my-children-surname-husband-feminist

Art

• http://www.miss-hack.org/?recent/

• http://projects.stwst.at/stwst48/mirror-party-sisters-play-by-sister0-with-sisters/

• http://delve.hr/projects/removed-from-the-crowd/feminist-takes-on-yugoslav-black-wave-film

• Elizabeth A. Sackler Center for Feminist Art https://www.brooklynmuseum.org/eascfa/about/
  • http://nytlive.nytimes.com/womenintheworld/2016/01/08/art-and-activism-intersect-across-elizabeth-sacklers-storied-career/

• Ursula LeGuin
  • https://www.thenation.com/article/ursula-le-guin-has-stopped-writing-fiction-but-we-need-her-more-than-ever/
  • https://www.washingtonpost.com/entertainment/books/at-86-ursula-k-le-guin-is-finally-getting-the-recognition-she-deserves--almost/2016/10/03/8753524c-8654-11e6-92c2-14b64f3d453f_story.html

Anti-patriarchy

• "Patriarchy has always had room for the Exceptional Woman—the one woman smart enough, sweet enough, strong enough, soft enough, pure enough, sexy enough to satisfy all of our culture's contradictory demands on women, and thus make it to the top of a sexist system on merit alone. Patriarchy needs that woman. She provides men with an excuse to blame women for their own pain and struggles while simultaneously assuring women that sexism only needs to be outwitted to be overcome. " http://www.elle.com/culture/career-politics/a41444/ivanka-trump-distraction/

Anti-capitalism

• http://mobile.nytimes.com/blogs/opinionator/2015/10/15/a-feminism-where-leaning-in-means-leaning-on-others/

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. 

• https://georgiebc.wordpress.com/2014/05/01/witches-and-how-they-are-silenced/

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.

• https://georgiebc.wordpress.com/2013/02/28/an-economy-for-all/

• http://globalwomenstrike.net/

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.

• "mere" equality is not enough https://aeon.co/essays/feminists-should-not-be-content-with-mere-equality

• No women in the boards of directors of these Dutch companies:

http://dezemannenkunnengeenvrouwkrijgen.nl/

• Feminism Against Capitalism https://www.jacobinmag.com/2016/02/aschoff-socialism-feminism-clinton-sandberg-class-race-wage-gap-care-work-labor/

• 23. February 2017, women & (other non cis-male persons) are making a "concerted effort to effect change through coordinated, massive, and direct action."
  • This is making a point - diversity is not enough, and it may, in fact, be used to distract the attention form greater inequalities.. it's an economic & political struggle, not just "social justice" effort:
  • https://modelviewculture.com/news/announcing-distributed-denial-of-women-a-strike-to-protest-poor-representation-inequality-abuse-of-women-in-tech
  • http://distributed-denial-of-women.org
  • https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/belief/2016/nov/17/diversity-can-distract-us-from-economic-inequality
  • http://www.lbc.co.uk/radio/presenters/james-obrien/james-argues-against-vilification-striking-workers/

• it 's not enough to want men and women to be equal in an unequal system. http://www.newstatesman.com/politics/feminism/2016/12/i-ate-sushi-enemy-and-got-my-hope-back

• Work-life balance in Patagonia (child-care) http://qz.com/806516/the-secret-to-patagonias-success-keeping-moms-and-onsite-child-care-and-paid-parental-leave/

InterSectionality

"We live inside a system and we need to see ourselves as whole in a system that wants to separate us out into parts." 

• https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/dec/09/black-feminist-movement-fails-women-black-minority
• https://norasamaran.com/2016/03/25/so-if-men-ask-before-sex-will-we-have-solved-patriarchy/

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

• 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

• https://www.salon.com/2016/01/07/a_culture_of_exclusion_and_unconscious_bias_gender_inequality_is_cannibalizing_the_sciences_partner/

• Plagiarism!! https://merylalper.com/2016/02/22/please-read-the-article-please-cite-women-academics/
  • Stephanie Ricker Schulte in her 2008 article “‘The WarGames Scenario:’ Regulating Teenagers and Teenaged Technology (1980-1984)” in Television & New Media,
  • her 2013 book Cached: Decoding the Internet in Global Popular Culture,

• Morozov-Medina...

• http://www.npr.org/sections/money/2014/10/21/357629765/when-women-stopped-coding // https://twitter.com/ZoggTheAlien/status/707334009475481602 /

• Also in humanities & philosophy: https://www.theguardian.com/higher-education-network/2015/jan/05/philosophy-is-for-posh-white-boys-with-trust-funds-why-are-there-so-few-women

• The Philosophy Force Five vs the Scientismists http://existentialcomics.com/comic/190

• ... and gender gap in economics (kind of science..) https://www.businessinsider.nl/gender-and-racial-gaps-in-economics-are-hurting-everyone-2017-9/

Gender Gap in Engineering

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

• https://www.kateheddleston.com/blog/how-our-engineering-environments-are-killing-diversity-introduction

Women in tech are the canary in the coal mine. Normally when the canary in the coal mine starts dying 
you know the environment is toxic and you should get the hell out. Instead, the tech industry is looking at the canary, 
wondering why it can't breathe, saying “Lean in, canary. Lean in!” 
When one canary dies they get a new one because getting more canaries is how you fix the lack of canaries, right? 
Except the problem is that there isn't enough oxygen in the coal mine, not that there are too few canaries.

• more:
  • https://www.kateheddleston.com/blog/argument-cultures-and-unregulated-aggression
  • https://www.kateheddleston.com/blog/criticism-and-ineffective-feedback
  • https://kateheddleston.com/blog/onboarding-and-the-cost-of-team-debt
  • https://kateheddleston.com/blog/social-norms-and-gendered-expectations

• http://qz.com/730290/harvey-mudd-college-took-on-gender-bias-and-now-more-than-half-its-computer-science-majors-are-women/

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...
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vAcdKTXtx1k Zoe Quinn , Crash Override -- a volunteer-run task force for victims and targets of online mob hatred.

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

• February 2016: http://qz.com/613270/brazen-sexism-is-pushing-women-out-of-americas-atheism-movement/

Sexism and harassment

https://medium.com/@everickert/10-things-you-can-do-to-defend-rape-culture-62ba876dc51b

2017

Taylor Swift

• • https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2017/aug/20/taylor-swift-do-not-feel-guilty-about-a-man-being-punished
    • “I’m not going to let you or your client make me feel in any way that this is my fault. Here we are years later, and I’m being blamed for the unfortunate events of his life that are the product of his decisions – not mine.”
    • So we are watching her use her immense privilege, fluency and confidence to give them the words to understand and to fight against the inevitable crap they have faced, or will do.
    • a framework for how to think about boundaries, how to contextualise the everyday micro-assaults they may have become deaf to, and how to take the stage with the confidence
  • https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/aug/16/taylor-swift-trial-workplace-harrassment-sexual-assault
  • https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/aug/11/taylor-swift-toughness-donald-trump-talk
    • Women are also constantly forced to fight for proper recognition of and respect for their work.
    • And yet she’s still got men trying to negate her achievements.
  • https://www.theguardian.com/music/2017/aug/15/taylor-swift-groping-trial-political-awakening-comment

memo

• August 2017: responses to Google's employee's anti-diversity manifesto / memo
  • Taking Male Entitlement Seriously http://tim.dreamwidth.org/2035407.html
  • https://medium.com/@girlziplocked/defending-that-google-dickbag-is-like-throwing-a-shit-stained-towel-at-womens-collective-face-b26e692defcb
  • https://medium.com/@agowland/sifting-through-the-shit-show-of-james-damores-manifesto-1306b0ad062c
  • https://code.likeagirl.io/actually-i-was-biologically-designed-to-be-an-engineer-460ab0c377dc
  • https://medium.com/@adljksbvkj/heres-your-point-by-point-refutation-of-the-google-memo-b7201d0cca04
  • https://www.vox.com/the-big-idea/2017/8/11/16130452/google-memo-women-tech-biology-sexism
  • https://medium.com/@tweetingmouse/the-truth-has-got-its-boots-on-what-the-evidence-says-about-mr-damores-google-memo-bc93c8b2fdb9
  • https://gizmodo.com/exclusive-heres-the-full-10-page-anti-diversity-screed-1797564320
  • https://medium.com/@yonatanzunger/so-about-this-googlers-manifesto-1e3773ed1788
    • Engineering is not the art of building devices; it’s the art of fixing problems.
    • the large bulk of your job is about coordinating and cooperating with other groups; making sure that dependencies and risks are managed, about designing the right modularity boundaries;
    • Essentially, engineering is all about cooperation, collaboration, and empathy for both your colleagues and your customers.
    • The truly hard parts about this job are knowing which code to write, building the clear plan of what has to be done in order to achieve which goal, and building the consensus required to make that happen.
  • Nial Murphy https://www.usenix.org/conference/srecon17europe/program/presentation/murphy-postmortem (Diversity and Inclusion in SRE: A Postmortem)

• http://juliepagano.tumblr.com/post/62034537968/i-think-im-in-an-emotionally-abusive

* April 2017: This Twitter thread!!!! https://twitter.com/alicegoldfuss/status/850021431433846785

• Violent attacks & stalking & police not doing anything http://www.slate.com/blogs/xx_factor/2017/06/29/english_police_apologize_to_helen_pearson_who_reported_her_stalker_125_times.html

• After Trump...
  • http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2017/03/silicon-valley-tech-alt-right-racism-misogyny
  • http://bust.com/feminism/18337-is-trump-a-trigger-according-to-women-s-reactions-to-last-night-s-debate-the-answer-is-yes.html
  • http://bust.com/books/193350-hillary-clinton-trump-debate-creep.html

• http://the-toast.net/2015/04/01/things-male-tech-colleagues-have-actually-said-annotated/

• http://www.commitstrip.com/en/2015/09/17/meanwhile-in-a-parallel-universe-2/ (comic strip)

• 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 http://www.ietf.org/iesg/statement/ietf-anti-harassment-policy.html

& procedure: https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-farrresnickel-harassment/

• 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

• Harassment in science/academia: http://www.wandering-scientist.com/2015/06/playing-game-rigged-against-you.html

• 2016: http://thinkprogress.org/economy/2016/01/12/3738390/kleiner-perkins-harassment-study/

• http://elephantinthevalley.com/ Feedback & Promotion, Inclusion, Unconscious biases, Motherhood, and Harassment & Safety.

It is time to focus the work on holding the men in charge accountable 
- not just trying to do things to “help women”.

• https://medium.com/life-tips/the-women-in-tech-movement-is-victim-blaming-bullshit-1861e6fffedf#.g1hqhs3hq

• https://motherboard.vice.com/read/female-hackers-still-face-harassment-at-conferences

• https://github.com/cjdelisle/JakeGate

• Announcing patriarchive.com A website addressing sexism and misogyny in the GLAM (galleries, libraries, archives, museums) sector.

Dealing with Harassment

Lika_Guiding_Principles#Dealing_with_harassment

Prevention

  Examples of Guiding Principles

• Guiding Principles
• Code of Conduct
• Policies & Rules

e.g. TechInc

• https://wiki.techinc.nl/index.php/Rules
• https://wiki.techinc.nl/index.php/Code_of_Conduct
• [Hackers Ethics] Sharing, Openness, Decentralization, Free access to computers, World Improvement.

• What to do instead of manspaining: https://medium.com/indian-thoughts/what-to-do-if-you-feel-the-urge-to-mansplain-97ea25eafcda

Conflict Resolution

• Hackerspace example: mediation http://quelab.net/wiki/doku.php?id=policies:inclusivity#grievance
• Family: http://www.g-casa.com/download/Okonkwo.pdf
• Social work: https://web.csulb.edu/projects/ccwrl/Rice_module.pdf
• Non-Violent Communication for Conflict Resolution (NVC)
  • "guides communities in choosing how they would like to respond to future conflict – proactively preventing or diminishing harm"
  • BUILDING A COMPASSIONATE JUSTICE SYSTEM: AN INTRODUCTION TO RESTORATIVE CIRCLES http://www.cnvc.org/topics/conflict-resolution
• http://empathetictechnicalleader.com // https://leanpub.com/littleguide/read

• https://medium.com/@flamsmark/patching-exploitable-communities-f44f3437038d#.scafos36g

Enforcement of Principles

• Example of clear description of consequences: http://wiki.lvl1.org/Bylaws#Violation_of_this_Policy

Coding

• • 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/

• 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

• http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2016/feb/12/women-considered-better-coders-hide-gender-github

• http://www.codedocumentary.com/

CODE documentary exposes the dearth of American female and minority software engineers 
and explores the reasons for this gender gap.  CODE raises the question: 
what would society gain from having more women and minorities code?

• http://www.sheplusplus.com/
  • http://www.sheplusplus.com/film/
  • https://vimeo.com/63877454
  • she++ works to empower underrepresented groups in technology by dismantling the negative stereotypes surrounding the industry. We aim to dispel the idea that computer science is not a career for women and minorities by rebranding what it means to be a technologist.

• http://opentranscripts.org/transcript/programming-forgetting-new-hacker-ethic/

Learn to code

• http://www.hackyourfuture.net/learn-to-code/

• http://www.selenasmall.com/command-line-mac-os-x/

• http://shescoding.org/resources/tags/women

• http://code.org
• http://www.freecodecamp.com
• CodePen.io
• http://codecademy.com
• "Hacking with the Tao": <http://wiki.hackerspaces.org/Zen_code
• https://github.com/vhf/free-programming-books/blob/master/free-programming-books.md
• "Clojure's Nightmod is a great IDE for game development and can be fun for learning https://sekao.net/nightmod/"

• ... but it's not enough: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2017/mar/14/tech-women-code-workshops-developer-jobs

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

• http://www.dailydot.com/technology/mra-suing-women-in-tech/

• http://wehuntedthemammoth.com/ "WHTM tracks and mocks the New Misogyny online, focusing especially on Men's Rights, Men Going Their Own Way (MGTOW), and Pickup Artist (PUA) sites."

Women and Climate Change

• Hackers_tribes#Gender_.26_Climate_Change

• Female_experts#on_Climate_Change

Misc

• http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/lara-baker/gender-balanced-music-industry_b_13555434.html

• gender balance in festivals: https://femalepressure.wordpress.com/facts/facts-2017-results-3/

• 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"

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
• John Oliver (2016) on International Women's Day: https://youtu.be/dNV7COWz8ME

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

Racial Diversity

• https://medium.com/@marksluckie/what-it-s-actually-like-to-be-a-black-employee-at-a-tech-company-e32bb222818b

• https://medium.com/@abarrica/startups-diversity-debt-and-what-to-do-about-it-cd385364506

• White privilege / similar to "male privilege"
  • http://everydayfeminism.com/2016/08/told-white-friend-black-opinion/
  • what is being asked of you is to acknowledge that (white/male) privilege does exist and to not only to treat people of races that differ from yours “with respect and humor,” but also to stand up for fair treatment and justice, to not let “jokes” or “off-color” comments by friends, co-workers, or family slide by without challenge, and to continually make an effort to put yourself in someone else’s shoes, so we may all cherish and respect our unique and special contributions to society as much as we do our common ground.