Gender wave

A small wave of articles and conversations on the topic of sexism in computing came through this week. I think it started with the burst of facebook disgust at Mr. Nadella's remarks on women asking for raises at the Grace Hopper conference...

• "... Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella had some retro advice for women attending the Grace Hopper Celebration on Thursday [Oct 9] ..."
• And publicity around Walter Isaacson's new book The Innovators triggered commentaries surrounding Ada Lovelace:
• The Forgotten Female Programmers Who Created Modern Tech, by Laura Sydell, NPR, October 06, 2014
• When Women Stopped Coding, NPR, October 21
• Plus a Ada Lovelace Day event, October 15 at Thoughtworks
• "GamerGate" --
  • Moral Combat article (10/15/2014) in the East Bay Express featuring an upcoming "Queerness and Games Conference - QGCon" at UC Berkeley: "After enduring a vicious harassment campaign designed to chase women out of the video game industry, local female developers are trying to take back the art form from commercialization."
  • [Twine article in New York Times 10/23/2014, sent to me by my sister.]
• A group of programmer friends at a cafe Oct 21 talked about it and circulated this 2011 Stanford article on how “Computer Geeks” replaced “Computer Girls”

Interesting...