- In multiple posts, Lucy Connor continues thinking about possible costs of diversity
- N.K. Jemisin considers how she accidentally wrote a postfeminist protagonist in her new fantasy series
- Maura McHugh, aka Splinster laments the SF industry’s failure to ask women’s opinions:
In the article the magazine asked 34 directors, screenwriters and authors to name an obscure or under-rated cult horror that deserved better recognition. Yup, you guessed it, not a single woman was asked for her opinion.” What’s more, in a plot twist worthy of any novel of the genre, the SFX publication comes smack dab in the middle of Women in Horror Month, set up to raise awareness of and give recognition to the genre’s many female creators.
- More event backchannel inappropriateness, this time in the PHP community.
- There’s been some discussion about Silicon Valley diversity of late. See what Techcrunch and Mercury News had to say.
- Maybe this article about meritocratic hiring could be insightful to startups wanting to avoid non-diverse hiring pools:
Now, whenever I screen resumes, I ask the recruiter to black out any demographic information from the resume itself: name, age, gender, country of origin. The first time I did this experiment, I felt a strange feeling of vertigo while reading the resume. [...] And, much to my surprise (and embarrassment), the kinds of people I started phone-screening changed immediately.
- From the compare-and-contrast department: How the gamer stereotype stacks up against reality.
- An unscientific survey of MIT students indicates that geeky students are a typical subset of society with typical sex lives as opposed to the stereotyped socially awkward folk. But we all knew that already, right?
- Not all countries have the same gender disparity in Tech. Stanford Uni’s Clayman Institute for Gender Research examines gender roles regarding Technology based careers in Malaysia, where women reign supreme.
- The Free Software Foundation is seeking donations to help sponsor more attendees for their Women’s Caucus at LibrePlanet 2010 next month.
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