#women

10 Upcoming Conferences (and a couple of awesome diversity scholarships) for Women in Tech
▻https://hackernoon.com/the-best-conferences-for-women-in-tech-in-2019-c032b3f42f5b?source=rss--

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Originally published at blog.stephsmith.io.Over the past few years, I’ve developed a passion for technology–first through working at a tech company and more recently learning to develop technology myself. I find the industry fascinating and the ability to create something from seemingly nothing extremely rewarding.As I’ve made my way further into technology, I’ve noticed to little shock that the “deeper” I get, the greater the gender gap. I’m confident this will continue to be true as I get even deeper into development, especially since some would not even consider me a “real developer” yet. These obstacles are something that I feel tied to from experience, but also through understanding the importance of inclusion in this industry.In fact, some of my most rewarding experiences recently have (...)

#women-in-tech #women-in-stem #conference #women-in-business #women-in-tech-events

Why You Don’t Always Have To Be Growing
▻https://hackernoon.com/why-you-dont-always-have-to-be-growing-e32e0087767d?source=rss----3a8144

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Paul Jarvis, Author of Company of One (right) and Poornima Vijayashanker, Founder of Femgineer (left)Interview with Paul Jarvis, Author of Company of OneHappy new year! I hope your 2019 is off to a great start :)If you’re curious what I’ve been up to and what I have in store for 2019, I’ll tell you right off the bat, I do not set goals or resolutions at the start of the year. Instead, I review my progress every quarter to see what I want to keep doing, what experiments I want to run, and what I am going to cut or put on the back burner!Taking a broad approach has served me well in running my business, balancing it with the ever-growing demands on my time as a new mom, and most importantly, managing overwhelm. So I won’t be sharing my goals for 2019 or if I’ve resolved to exercise more or (...)

#entrepreneurship #women-in-tech #podcast #startup #growth-mindset

Bias in #ai: a letter to my daughter
▻https://hackernoon.com/my-dearest-eliisabet-de724a86d105?source=rss----3a8144eabfe3---4

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My dearest Eliisabet,Only 5 years old, but you will grow up to become a strong, beautiful & independent woman, of that I’m sure.You are a daughter of a man that wasn’t always an example to others. It took some time for me to grow up & take responsibility for my actions. Being your father has accelerated this process for sure.My generation seems to be struggling with growing up as well. Especially in the relatively young tech community, and more specific the artificial intelligence community, people are not always taking their responsibilities serious.Equality is hard work for my non-white & non-male colleagues in both academia and the industry. The current system is biased in many subtle but also in some very obvious ways.Although the tech community has an huge impact on (...)

#feminism #bias-in-ai #ai-bias #women-in-tech

Why We Need More Women Working in #blockchain
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In 2018, cryptocurrency market capitalisations were worth more than $700 million, and although market trading neared $1 trillion, only 5.5% of bitcoin investors are women. Another study by Quartz looked at crypto startups founded between 2012 and 2018, which discovered that only 8.5% had a founder or co-founder who was a woman.Blockchain needs women to grow successfully, and women need blockchain, too.Blockchain needs women because diversity equals success.Women make businesses more successful at all levels. One study in 2016 found that women were 34% more successful at trading (in traditional markets) than men. Another discovered a high correlation between gender diversity in senior management and better financial performance. In the tech sector, companies with a high level of gender (...)

#technology #women-in-tech #blockchain-technology #blockchain-development

Trailblazing Women in the #cybersecurity Field
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Photo SourceWomen have always had to fight hard for equality and acceptance, especially in the workplace. In primarily male-dominated fields like cybersecurity, women make up only 20 percent of the workforce. Although that figure is climbing, we have a long way to go before women are seen as more than tokens in the industry.There is a tremendous opportunity for women who want to break into cybersecurity. According to Forbes Magazine, by 2021, there will be 3.5 million jobs available in cybersecurity. Cybercrime is on the rise, and companies all over the world are scrambling to fill the open positions with good cyber technicians to field the swarm of threats that are coming.Experts hope that within the next few years, that gender gap will narrow with women making up 50 percent of the (...)

#cybersecurity-field #women-in-tech #women-in-crybersecurity #tech

Advancing Women in Product Launches New Chapters in London, Paris and Berlin
▻https://hackernoon.com/advancing-women-in-product-launches-new-chapters-in-london-paris-and-ber

AWIP has surpassed 4,000 members in 2018Strong demand for equality and professional opportunities for female product leaders across EuropeLondon chapter kickoff event co-hosted with European Python communityLONDON — December 13, 2018 — Advancing Women in Product (AWIP), the organization empowering high-potential female product and tech leaders around the globe through equality of opportunity, announced its #international #expansion to three major European cities: London, Paris and Berlin.“Strong collaboration between product leaders across geographical backgrounds is key to addressing equal educational and professional opportunities for females in the industry,” said Nancy Wang, CEO and co-founder of #awip. “By expanding our community into Europe, AWIP hopes to drive change for women in tech around (...)

#womenpms #startup

The International Organization for Migration (IOM) said most female migrants in Morocco travelled to the North African country without family members.

It adds that more than half of them are single mothers, the majority of them became pregnant on their way to Morocco.

▻https://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/features/raped-abused-harassed-tale-female-migrants-morocco-181129112830538.html

#women #gender #migration #morocco

Ils ont osé...

Today is International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women. How can border guards help protect women and girls? Frontex officers identify victims of trafficking in human beings, who often are women exposed to abuse, violence and sexual exploitation.

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▻https://twitter.com/Frontex/status/1066648189720248323
#femmes #violence #exploitation #trafic_d'êtres_humains #victimes #Frontex #absudistan #frontières #fermeture_des_frontières #exploitation_sexuelle #hypocrisie
–-> faudrait ajouter d’autres tag pour retrouver cette annonce de Frontex... si queluqu’un a des idées...

Ma réponse :

It’s a #joke, right? #LegalPaths and #OpenBorders is the answer to protect #women and #girls against #violence! This is actually the opposite of #Frontex mission!

ping @isskein @reka @daphne @_kg_

How To Assert Yourself As A Woman In Tech
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It’s tough to be a woman in the male-dominated tech world.As a female front-end developer for over a decade, I often hear feedback from #women who are told they aren’t able to do the job as well as men. That they’re too emotional, and incapable of understanding the more technical concepts — the code or the #technology.This narrative is completely false. But it’s one that women themselves take on as a self-fulfilling prophecy: because they’re treated so poorly, they think they must be less worthy.It breaks my heart when extremely smart, talented women say they don’t feel heard or respected by men in their industry.Unfortunately, the stats reinforce this gender inequality. In 2017, female founders of all-women teams received just 2% of all venture capital dollars. And most firms don’t even report (...)

#empowerment #women-in-tech #empowering-women

5 Best Practices For Keeping A New Product On Track
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Vera Reynolds, Software Engineer at Pivotal Tracker (middle), Lisa Doan, Product Manager at Pivotal Tracker (right)and Poornima Vijayashanker, founder of Femgineer(left)Interview with Lisa Doan and Vera Reynolds of Pivotal TrackerLast week on Build, we shared why instead of rebuilding or redesigning an existing product, it might make sense to build a brand-new product, and we walked you through how some folks on the Pivotal Tracker team arrived at their decision.When you start building a new product, you have the best of intentions to revise old processes and move away from bad habits. But it’s easier said than done. So this week, we’re going to share some best practices for keeping a new product on track!And to help us out, Lisa Doan and Vera Reynolds are back! You’ll recall Lisa is a (...)

#women-in-tech #project-management #agile #product-development #software-development

Why Build A Brand New Product Instead Of Rebuilding Or Redesigning One
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Vera Reynolds, Software Engineer at Pivotal Tracker (middle), Lisa Doan, Product Manager at Pivotal Tracker (right)and Poornima Vijayashanker, founder of Femgineer(left)Interview with Lisa Doan and Vera Reynolds of Pivotal TrackerHappy November!November is one of my favorite months mostly because I love Thanksgiving. Last year I had a wonderful time celebrating it with Meghan Burgain, Femgineer’s Community Manager in Bordeaux, France. We had a Frenchgiving, and had the opportunity to share how Meghan works remotely.This November, we’re going to be tackling a new theme on Build: building a brand-new product.If you’ve been building a product for a while, you know it’s natural to start accruing tech debt and product debt. And there comes a point when it becomes really hard to add new features (...)

#agile #software-development #product-development #project-management #women-in-tech

The nine types of ’Reply Guys’
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#WomeninSTEM get a lot of “Reply Guys” who repeat the same unhelpful comments.
@shrewshrew and I (a woman & a man in science) have attempted to catalog those replies, to save us all the trouble of writing new responses every time. presenting THE NINE TYPES OF REPLY GUYS

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#twitter #AhBenOnPlusRienDireAlors #mecsplication

1933 Article on Frida Kahlo: “Wife of the Master Mural Painter Gleefully Dabbles in Works of Art” | Open Culture

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Glané sur Twitter grâce à @fil si je me souviens bien

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And yet, far from the Keane’s San Francisco, and perhaps as far as a person can get from Margaret’s frustrated acquiescence, we have Frida Kahlo creating a body of work that would eventually overshadow her husband’s, muralist Diego Rivera. Unlike Walter Keane, Rivera was a very good painter who did not attempt to overshadow his wife. Instead of professional jealousy, he had plenty of the personal variety. Even so, Rivera encouraged Kahlo’s career and recognized her formidable talent, and she, in turn, supported him. In 1933, when Florence Davies---whom Kahlo biographer Gerry Souter describes as “a local news hen”---caught up with her in Detroit, Kahlo “played the cheeky, but adoring wife” of Diego while he labored to finish his famous Detroit mural project.

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The big-eyed children: the extraordinary story of an epic art fraud | Art and design | The Guardian
▻https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2014/oct/26/art-fraud-margaret-walter-keane-tim-burton-biopic

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In the 1960s, Walter Keane was feted for his sentimental portraits that sold by the million. But in fact, his wife Margaret was the artist, working in virtual slavery to maintain his success. She tells her story, now the subject of a Tim Burton biopic

#art #fraude #women_in_art

“The Gender-Equality Paradox in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics Education” by Gijsbert Stoet and David C. Geary,
▻http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/0956797617741719

The paradox is that countries with greater gender equality (Scandinavia, for instance) have a lower percentage of female STEM (Science, Technicques, Engineering, Mathematics) graduates, and also higher intraindividual differences in abilities (measured with #PISA).

▻https://doi.org/10.1177/0956797617741719

An hypothesis of the authors is that, in countries with lower gender equality (arabic-muslim countries, for instance), women are more eager to go to relatively well-paid STEM jobs, to secure some independance. In more egalitarian countries, it is not so necessary so women go to other areas. It’s just an hypothesis: as often in social sciences, there are few certainties.

The paper is not officially on-line, it seems, but is available on Sci-Hub ▻http://sci-hub.tw/10.1177/0956797617741719

#STEM #gender_equality #women_in_science

What it’s like attending a huge #tech conference
▻https://hackernoon.com/what-its-like-attending-a-huge-tech-conference-44d71313364e?source=rss--

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The good and the “humorous” from a female perspective“I feel like I’m about to go to the first day of school.”I said out loud as I walked into the Moscone Center Tuesday morning.A few coworkers and I got free tickets to the #google Cloud Next Conference. It was my first time attending a conference of that scale. They said there were over 25,000 attendees.I had no idea what to expect, but I’ve certainly experienced a lot now.1. Plethora of humans of the XY kind.A week prior, I asked my boyfriend, who’s known as the “Cloud Guy” in our scene, what kind of people go to Google Cloud Next.“Umm…men.” He said.And oh boy he couldn’t have been more perfect with his answer.This game is called “find the female engineers”Having “Cloud” in the conference name, it shouldn’t be shocking that many talks are about (...)

#women-in-tech #cloud-computing #silicon-valley

Une physicienne a rédigé 270 profils Wikipédia de femmes scientifiques
▻https://siecledigital.fr/2018/07/26/physicienne-270-profils-wikipedia-femmes-scientifiques

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#Jess_Wade, une chercheuse spécialisée dans les appareils électroniques en plastique, a décidé de s’attaquer au problème de la sous-représentation des femmes dans les branches scientifiques. Afin de mettre en avant les grandes femmes scientifiques, elle rédige des fiches Wikipédia sur certaines d’entre elles.

En six mois, Jess Wade a écrit 270 pages #Wikipédia de #femmes ayant eu une influence dans la #recherche_scientifique. De quoi susciter des vocations chez les jeunes filles. Pour sa première fiche, la physicienne a choisi Kim Cobb, une Américaine océanographe spécialisée dans le changement climatique ayant notamment travaillé dans la prévention des coraux. Sur son compte Twitter, Jess Wade publie les adresses des nouvelles pages avec le hashtag #womeninSTEM (acronyme en anglais de science, technologie, ingénierie et mathématiques).

#invisibilité_des_femmes #sciences #femmes

le fil twitter
▻https://twitter.com/search?q=%23womeninSTEM&src=typd
Grand merci à Françoise

The Privileges Of Parental Leave
▻https://hackernoon.com/the-privileges-of-parental-leave-31c176c784bb?source=rss----3a8144eabfe3

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Back in April, I shared my “plans” for parental leave in this post. Those of you who aren’t parents found the post valuable and had many follow up questions for me. While others of you who are parents taught me some valuable lessons!So this week I decided to take a little break from sharing a brand new Build episode to do a follow-up post reflecting on the many benefits and privileges I’ve experienced from parental leave.I say privileges knowing that not everyone is as fortunate as I am to have uninterrupted parental leave for as long as I would like. Most people in the US are constrained to 2 weeks, 6 weeks, or 3 months.I have the good fortune of running my own business, so I decided to take 3 months off officially, and then transition back slowly on a part-time basis.Parental leave lets (...)

#female-founders #parenting #startup-life #women-in-tech #entrepreneurship

How To Get Started Building Applications For Augmented Reality And Virtual Reality
▻https://hackernoon.com/how-to-get-started-building-application-for-augmented-reality-and-virtua

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Rose Haft CEO & Founder of Lumenora (right) and Poornima Vijayashanker, founder of Femgineer (left)Interview with Rose Haft Founder of LumenoraIn last week’s episode of my show Build, we exposed a number of myths about current augmented reality and virtual reality trends, and how new products are evolving by learning from predecessors like Google Glass.If the episode piqued your curiosity and left you wondering how you can get started or where you can find more resources, today’s episode is for you!Rose Haft the CEO and Founder of Lumenora is back. Together we’re going to share some the applications of augmented reality and virtual reality that are here to stay, and how you can get started tinkering with the technology.You’ll learn:How 200+ companies are using augmented reality and (...)

#women-in-tech #women-in-engineering #augmented-reality #virtual-reality #female-founders

Her First Hackathon
▻https://hackernoon.com/her-first-hackathon-2c6cb75aadc4?source=rss----3a8144eabfe3---4

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Wallifornia HackathonHackathons can be a transformative experience for any new developer. Why? Because they provide a tangible real-world opportunity to build something from scratch and then “ship” a minimum viable product (MVP) in less than 24 hours. On the line are cash prizes, industry connections, and the bragging right to say I did this!In fact, it’s a kind of rite of passage most developers put themselves through at least once in their career. Those 24 hours can be both exhilarating and frustrating for new developers as, for the first time, they learn how to work with a team, get acquainted with new APIs, and then make critical choices about what features to include in the final product.Cloudinary recently sponsored the #wallifornia #musictech Hackathon in Liège, Belgium. A group of (...)

#hackathons #women-in-tech #her-first-hackathon

For #Human_Evolution, Root-Gathering #Grandmas May Have Been More Important Than Man The Hunter - NPR

While the men were out hunting, grandmothers and babies were building the foundation of our species’ success – sharing food, cooperating on more and more complex levels and developing new social relationships. In a nutshell, humanity’s success may all be dependent on the unique way our ancestors raised their kids.

▻https://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2018/06/07/617097908/why-grandmothers-may-hold-the-key-to-human-evolution

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#food #women

#Prudence_Heward | Musée des beaux-arts du Canada

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La peintre Prudence Heward faisait partie d´un petit groupe de femmes artistes, actives à Montréal dans l’entre-deux-guerres. Bien qu´elle ait réalisé des paysages et des natures mortes, on la connaît principalement pour ses représentations de la figure humaine. Ses portraits de femmes physiquement robustes mais complexes sur le plan psychologique, s´opposent aux représentations conventionnelles de la femme passive ; les femmes qu´elle peint sont toujours campées dans un paysage, elles semblent indépendantes et troublantes, et même parfois provocantes.

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« The Immigrants », 1929.

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« Farmhouse and Car », 1933.

#art #women_in_art #migration #asile #réfugiés

How Elise built a thriving business as a Digital Nomad
▻https://hackernoon.com/how-elise-built-a-thriving-business-as-a-digital-nomad-6bab3bf3a98?sourc

Elise JacksonA journey from selling beard oils to helping clients make money on Amazon — all on roadPeople are racking up unbelievable profits selling on Amazon. Elise did just that and then started helping others to do it too. And, this is how — This is Unicorn — was born!I’ve grown my most recent Amazon brand from Zero to 6-figures in just 6 months — EliseRead this interview to find how Elise built her #startup while traveling as a digital nomad!Digital Nomadism may appear too casual to the onlookers but do not underestimate what Digital Nomads have been able to achieve.When I did my first Digital Nomadic stint in Bali in 2016, it opened to me not only the frolics of globetrotting but the potential of setting up a serious business.I met Elise Jackson in September, 2016 when she was rescuing few (...)

#women-entrepreneurs #startup-lessons #self-improvement #digital-nomads

What A Remote Team Needs To Be Successful When Working On A Mission Critical Project
▻https://hackernoon.com/what-a-remote-team-needs-to-be-successful-when-working-on-a-mission-crit

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Holly Cardew at Founder of Pixc (right) and Poornima Vijayashanker, founder of Femgineer (left)Interview with Holly Cardew Founder of PixcAll this month we’ve been talking about remote working as it relates to recruiting, training, and retaining remote workers. We started out by tackling how to recruit remote workers for people who may be new to it. Then we discussed how to train, hold accountable, and retain remote workers.After last week’s episode a number of you wrote in to share your experience via email or on social media. Thank Kate B, Lauren H, and Shannon W for reaching out!You’ve each embraced remote by either proving that you can be a productive remote employee, building a team, and now you’re juggling things like remote-first versus remote-friendly and making additional (...)

#remote-working #women-in-tech #agile #female-founders #remote-work

The Refugees, 1937 by Polish artist #Tamara_de_Lempicka #womensart

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#art #réfugiés #migrations #asile

Proven Strategies For Training And Retaining Remote Workers
▻https://hackernoon.com/proven-strategies-for-training-and-retaining-remote-workers-133320bcb52f

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Holly Cardew at Founder of Pixc (right) and Poornima Vijayashanker, founder of Femgineer (left)Interview with Holly Cardew Founder of PixcIn last week’s episode of Build we dove into the benefits and best practices around recruiting remote workers. But as you’ve learned from last month’s Build episodes, it’s not enough to hire talent, you also need to onboard new hires by training them!Training someone to be on a remote team might seem like a challenge since they aren’t sitting next to you. Those who are new to setting up a remote team think that training face-to-face is just easier because you can answer questions as they come up. And it may seem easier when training multiple hires. But rest assured you can train remote workers, and in a way that scales as you hire multiple people at  (...)

#agile #female-founders #distributed-teams #remote-working #women-in-tech