Comments on Women in Science: Attracting Women to Rails

Thanks for the update!

2009-07-03T12:27:37.759-07:00

Thanks for the update!

Very nice overview. I wanted to post a followup. ...

2009-07-03T03:35:36.700-07:00

Very nice overview. I wanted to post a followup.

In the panel at RailsConf, I talked about doing some free workshops for women who wanted to learn Ruby and Rails. We had the first one a few weeks ago, and the second is coming up at the end of July.

The effort is already drawing

Skye: in some of the discussions of the issue some...

2009-05-11T03:50:00.000-07:00

Skye: in some of the discussions of the issue some people have argued that any publicity is good publicity, and it doesn't matter if they have forgotten the content of the presentation. I'm not sure it really works like that in a small community though.

Ms.PhD: I wonder what the discussion would have been like if the images had been of women in bikinis. A series of gratuitous bikini

Great article! You are so prolific, I wish I could...

2009-05-09T22:29:00.000-07:00

Great article! You are so prolific, I wish I could be more like you with my blog.

I did post a recent letter I wrote to the editor of Science, critiquing a sexist research article they published. My letter did not make the cut, so I have published it on my blog. It is a counter-argument to the "variance on math tests" crap that everyone uses (like Larry Summers) to prove that men

awesome post. I heard about this hoopla from a fri...

2009-05-09T17:18:00.000-07:00

awesome post. I heard about this hoopla from a friend and was very amused to see it highlighted here.

Kind of like the Larry Summers debacle, apparently it did one good thing, which was to spark a lot of productive discussion at this meeting and at RailsConf (e.g. supportive men educating clueless men).

In fact, the ensuing discussion made me feel a lot better about the (

"...making a subset of your audience uncomfortable...

2009-05-08T05:22:00.000-07:00

"...making a subset of your audience uncomfortable is a problem."

Yes, exactly! I hate the tone some commenters are striking where anyone offended, annoyed, or otherwise bothered by those images has to PROVE why the images are a problem. Isn't it enough that large numbers of people were so distracted by the images that the conversation ended up being about the images instead of the