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

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

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/

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

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

Role models

http://www.theguardian.com/guardian-professional/women-leadership-blog/gallery/2015/jun/22/10-of-the-best-female-role-models-in-tech-in-pictures

http://www.wired.com/2015/10/margaret-hamilton-nasa-apollo/

http://www.notabletechnicalwomen.org/ // http://www.cs.duke.edu/csed/wikipedia/cards.html

Links to resources and news

Increasing the gender diversity

• https://events.ccc.de/camp/2015/wiki/Session:IncreaseGenderDiversity

• 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

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://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

Women and hackers

• Dear haker 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

• 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

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

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

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

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

Art

• http://www.miss-hack.org/?recent/

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

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.

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

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

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

Sexism and harassment

• 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

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

Learn to code

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

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

• 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."

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"

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

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