Technically Women

Here it comes again: “Where are the Women Speakers?” Geoff Livingston triggers yet another uproar over the longstanding complaint that women are not fairly represented at Tech conferences. I have some experience here that I’d like to share on a few sides of this discussion.
I was a stay-at-home Mom for five years after [...]

Social software matters because it allows for quality to surface, modesty to win, and effort to be rewarded… all things that hierarchical processes in organizations often subvert. In hierarchical information flows, position in the hierarchy rather than effort/work quality determines influence and power. This is not to say that all hierarchical organizations do [...]

Although the last half century has seen changes in perception and more egalitarian behavior, the technology gender gap still exists.

Let me state right from the start, I do not like playing the gender card. Sweeping generalizations about how men and women “are” make me bristle. I do not consciously frame myself in this world as a woman first. I am a person. I am unique. I happen to be female in gender. And in part, because of that, I often resist believing that there are any barriers to entry in positions or fields.