"Right now, the dominant narrative about women in tech is overwhelmingly woven of antipatterns."
That was interesting, liked that. Not liking the anti-pattern part, but liked the insight. Or at least I'm dense enough to find it insightful.
She's a good writer, worth following. I'd follow her blog in my RSS reader if I could figure out how. I'm not going to play data silo games on medium, so oh well, too bad.
I almost skipped this based on the title, thinking it would be another shortisghted diatribe. I'm glad I didn't.
Sometimes I feel like I'm the only one who sees that the way out of these discrimination scenarios is looking to the future, at what we can do differently, not just at what wrongs have been or are being committed. Those are important to recognize, but there's very little we can do about them. I was shocked at her account of being accused of being complicit in her own oppression by recounting her own positive experiences. Who does that help?
Edit: what I'm trying to say is that this person seems to get it, and as a nice benefit phrased it in a way that balances sympathy with the need to change, which is probably more than can be said for my comment.
Are women actually being driven out of the tech community or are all these articles I read about discrimination against women in tech just a vocal minority?
I also don't get the feminist push for more female programmers, scientists, etc. You mean you WANT your kind to sit in isolation for long periods of time, day in and day out, for years at a time? To me, it's something you fall into like drug and alcohol abuse, but more positive.
Programming isn't necessarily isolated. This article is all about finding the tech community to be more welcoming than "normal" communities.
Edit: Discrimination in tech seems to be done by a minority, but those few run into a lot of women at conferences etc. Much more discrimination is done outside the tech community, by people who don't tell girls that they can pursue tech.
Yes, in my assessment, and in the assessment of female developers I have spoken with, women are being driven out of the tech community. Why do you think that it is a vocal minority?
I agree. I think the original perception is rooted in a context-free understanding of the present. That is, they lack mature awareness of the period during which women were driven out, only perceiving the status quo after that period.
What is 'the' tech community? I've been a programmer for 25 years, and I'm honestly unfamiliar with it. Does Microsoft count as a tech community? If you go there, you will find tons of women developers doing great work, and it doesn't seem they're being pushed out of anything. Pushed into bigger houses, more like! Anyway, shame on this putative community you speak of.
lol, that's like saying "i dont get why gays wanna marry, marriage is awful and taxes are crazy", or "blacks shouldn't want to vote, our government is crooked"
That was interesting, liked that. Not liking the anti-pattern part, but liked the insight. Or at least I'm dense enough to find it insightful.
She's a good writer, worth following. I'd follow her blog in my RSS reader if I could figure out how. I'm not going to play data silo games on medium, so oh well, too bad.