Projects that train and/or support women coders and sysadmins:
- PyStar: Python Programming Workshops for Women and Their Friends.
- RailsBridge: Ruby on Rails inclusive communities.
- GNOME Foundation Outreach Program for Women: 3 month, work-from-home, paid internships with open source projects
- An Archive of Our Own, archive of transformative works. Large number of women coders.
- Dreamwidth: a fork of the Livejournal code, a blogging platform. Large number of women coders
- Systers: “Systers is the world’s largest email community of technical women in computing.”
- Linux Chix: Support for women Linux users
- Lilypad Arduino, a sewable microcontroller
- Top Secret Rosies: A documentary and educational packet about the female “computers” of WWII who were the first programmers of ENIAC. By Phila filmmaker LeAnn Erickson. Full feature film available from PBS
The gender gap in education and careers
- Early spatial training helps close the gender gap
- Teen Girls and Technology: What’s the Problem, What’s the Solution? By Lesley Farmer, 2008.
- Implicit bias test: Quiz to help identify hidden biases
- Stemming the Tide: Why women leave engineering. Paper by the Center for the Study of the Workplace, 2011. Full report, Summary
- Pay gap: Simple Truth About the Pay Gap, 2012 from AAUW
- Why So Few? AAUW study about the lack of women in STEM fields, 2010
- Statistics: Proportion of women in tech sectors
- FLOSSPOLS Gender Policy Recommendations, a study about gender and open source
- Excellent OSCON 2009 keynote about women in open source by programmer and advocate Skud
Creative responses and policies:
- Geek Feminism Anti-Harassment sample policy for conferences
- Dreamwidth Diversity Statement
- Identifying Imposter Syndrome
- “That’s What She Really Said” IRC Chatbot
- Good Sexism Comebacks from Geek Feminism
- Response to “Why Don’t You Just Hit Him!?”
- Center for Nonviolent Communication
- Do’s and Dont’s for the Dudely Organizer with Dan The Dude: A zine illustrating common foibles of would-be allies
Pictures of HGG Stories:
- Rutgers University
- Girl Geek Dinners
- HacDC
- Hackers on Planet Earth (HOPE9)
- AdaCamp DC
- Women In Tech Summit
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[...] Our wonderful speakers, Amy Guthrie and Stephanie Alarcon, clearly introduced the gender gap in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) fields, showing that while the number of women in these fields has increased, there is still a significant gap. The resources referenced in their talk are available on The Hacktory’s website. [...]