Technically Women

Rethinking the female conference speaker dimension
The other day, while chatting in passing with a high-level executive at my huge enterprise software company about the conference speaker gender (non-)diversity issue, I suggested he could instantly transform speaker diversity by changing his gender.
The man, by the way, did an admirable job fielding my rather tasteless request (I [...]

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.