It might be surprising to say that humility is a good quality in someone whose job it is to disrupt industries and sell their business to investors. Especially as humility is defined by the Oxford English Dictionary as: “The...
Category - Diversity
I think the crux of this matter revolves around the idea of specialist knowledge. For example, I’ve noticed that in all areas of technology, there are some areas with more gender balance than others. When it comes to UX and...
I actually don’t like the word ‘feminism’, because like all ‘isms’ and other obscure words, it stops people from thinking what it actually means. But, for lack of a better word, I’ll go with feminism. Some people...
In this technological age, social stereotypes have undergone a profound shift. Culturally, we used to worship movie stars, sports heroes and prominent business people. To a large extent we still do. But slowly, we are entering an...
If Mark Zuckerberg was serious about improving diversity at Facebook, he could do it. Just like Dartmouth College have done in their engineering school. There’s lots of talk in the tech industry about improving diversity in...
A lot of people are talking about how we need more women coders to break into the culture of ‘brogrammers’. One of the single biggest issues with the lack of diversity in STEM is the myth of learned and innate skills. As a...
The Guardian Digital Development team kindly put on a really engaging networking event for people aspiring towards a career in tech. It dealt with some recurring issues facing those who want to break into the tech industry, or...
I normally come away from women’s career events feeling empowered and inspired, and Monday’s event by Stylist Magazine was no different. The Stylist Life Lessons panel discussion at Ham Yard Hotel in Soho featured...
This was my first time at Rails Girls London and it was exciting to be introduced to this huge community of enthusiasts and developers who shared one common goal: to get stuck into Ruby on Rails and meet other like-minded...
Whatever your views on innate gender differences, advances in modern neuroscience mean it is getting more and more difficult to argue that men and women have different brains. This worldview lost fashion somewhere around the...