Everyone is so excited about the new “game developer” Barbie, but it just makes me sick. First of all, of course she’s a game developer, because every other profession in engineering and coding “sounds boring.” Heaven forbid she should be doing something boring like developing an algorithm to analyze the outbreak of disease, creating an…
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I was amused this week by a tublr blog called Escher Girls which showcases female superheroes from comic books in impossible poses, and postulates how they could have gotten that way. (If you have samples, they are happy to receive your submissions. No pun intended, really.) As more and more of us stand up against…
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When is it appropriate to greet a business woman with a kiss instead of a handshake? I’m tempted to say “always.” Wednesday I set up a meeting with a potential business partner who I’d met once before at a networking venue. When he saw me, he got up, gave me an air-kiss on the cheek…
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Why women need to stop complaining about the sexist male culture in tech. The male-dominated tech culture is under heavy fire from women who are justifiably fed up with the harassment, subtle jabs, discounting of their ideas, and just generally chauvinistic treatment in the tech world. But it’s time to just shut up. I don’t…
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