Tag: gender
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Women in Tech, Ben Silbermann, & Why I Want To Be Visible
Ben Silbermann, the founder of Pinterest, has given keynotes at Alt Summit a couple times now. I remember people gushing about his talk the first time he spoke there, even though I wasn’t in attendance. So I was really excited to see that he was back on the Alt Summit schedule this year as the…
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I got LadyHacked!
And it was the best thing ever. There’s forever a hackathon going on in the Philly tech scene. They’re all pretty male-dominated. But not LadyHacks. The whole point was to introduce hackathons to the women in tech community (and the female content creators, marketers, designers, etc. who support the community). Eighty percent of the attendees,…
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Lunchtime Reads
I have this unproductive habit of sending myself links to articles I’ve read that I want to be able to reread or access later. It makes for a cluttered inbox, and often I forget about them anyway. Though we now spend hours curating visuals on Pinterest, I’ve wondered about practical ways to curate writing or…
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Reaction to “How to Talk to Little Girls”
This morning, I found this Lisa Bloom article in Huffington Post. It’s titled “How to Talk to Little Girls.” She recounts an interaction she had with a little girl, who seemed surprised that Bloom started asking her questions about what books she liked to read, instead of squealing over how cute she was. Since sometime…