hypatiadotca

"yellow badges" are contractors at Google.

well played.

It'll seem much less bizarre if you spend a week or two reading LKML :/

Kinda like Hacker News. CHECKMATE.

The pipeline is unbalanced, yes, but the meat of the article is in how it surveys the reasons women leave.

Some of us, many of whom are involved in the Ubuntu Women project, spent the better part of a decade working to make Ubuntu that way. I'm glad our work paid off :)

"I chewed my 20-year-old girlfriend out for not keeping the wine glasses of my guests topped off during dinner at her end of the table."

Wow you sound like a real catch there dude.

being "unattractive" has never been any sort of protection against sexual assault :/

we had a conversation on the geekfeminism blog a while back about the issue of not talking about the bad stuff in tech - you might find it insightful, in terms of how some women who are in tech, and have deal with this shit, think about it: http://geekfeminism.org/2010/06/10/dont-mention-the-war/

the OP is the third friend of mine this year who's been sexually assaulted at a technical conference. sadly, this is not as rare an event as we'd like to think :(

we had a post about the whole "talking about all the bad stuff will discourage women in tech" bit a while back at geekfeminism: http://geekfeminism.org/2010/06/10/dont-mention-the-war/

tigtog put it better than I could:

http://finallyfeminism101.wordpress.com/2007/03/15/faq-what%...