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All About Ada: Cause for Celebration

All About Ada: Cause for Celebration

Posted 24 March 2010 | By Cathy Brooks | Categories: Feminism, Technically Women, Women and conferences | 1 Comment

Generally on Ada Lovelace Day the idea is to pick a woman who inspires you and toss up a blog post extolling her virtues. I’ve done so over on my own blog, but when the Technically Women posse started talking about how to tackle the topic, I opted to scramble up to 30,000 feet and [...]

Kerfuffle over a quandary: My take on the female conference speaker debate

Kerfuffle over a quandary: My take on the female conference speaker debate

Posted 07 August 2009 | By Cathy Brooks | Categories: Technically Women, Women and conferences | 15 Comments

It’s a fact. When you look at the agendas for top tech gatherings – whether social media focused or not – there are blessed few women on the stage. Period. Though this issue has percolated to the top of the meme stream of late, thanks in part to this post by TSG (about which I’ll [...]

Calling a Spade a Spade: A shift on my female perspective

Calling a Spade a Spade: A shift on my female perspective

Posted 29 June 2009 | By Cathy Brooks | Categories: Feminism, History, Technically Women | 5 Comments

Where to begin?
I suppose a good first step would be to proffer .02 as to why I joined this posse. It’s not as though this was an arduous decision-making process (I mean, have you checked out this amazing list? I’m honored to be counted among them!), but at the same I’ve generally eschewed participating too [...]