Tech's Gender Gap: Real or Silicon (Valley) Made

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/rebekah-iliff/techs-gender-gap-real-or-_b_1930736.html

by SparksZilla • 14 years ago

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alid2• 14 years ago

Brilliant article! It's so important to highlight the multifarious roles played by women throughout the tech sector.

Although I'll temper that by noting there's work to be done in addressing the gender balance in engineering and encouraging the next generation of women developers - there's a Charlie Rose interview with Sheryl Sandberg and Marc Andreessen, where Sheryl noted that at a recent programming camp for kids there were very few girls.

SparksZilla• 14 years ago

No question about it we need more women in each of the roles Rebekah mentioned. Do you have the link to that interview? I'd love to listen to / watch it!

alid2• 14 years ago

Here you go :) It's long but insightful, so I recommend watching the whole thing: https://www.facebook.com/FacebookStudio?sk=app_2522064914642...

roguecoder• 14 years ago

While all of those are important and often-undervalued roles, attributing them to gender seems far-fetched. Suggesting that there isn't a problem with gender in tech because related professions have women is purposefully obtuse (especially when the ratio among entrepreneurs is even worse than among coders.)

Tech's Gender Gap: Real or Silicon (Valley) Made

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