Every generation gets its label, and no single person can truly speak for a very large number of people. However, we can look through a particular lens to make inferences that prove enlightening. You can use when you were born...
Category - Tech
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...
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...
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...
You know what’s so hot right now? Virtual reality. It’s London Technology Week, and one of the very first events in this exciting programme was about VR – an area of tech currently experiencing high growth and...
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...
You might not think that learning to code may be much of an achievement, but I think differently. I joined a Code First: Girls front end web design course for my professional development, but I ended up learning so much more than...
I went to a screening at the Guardian offices in King’s Cross of CODE: Debugging the Gender Gap, a crowd-funded film released in 2015, directed by Robin Hauser Reynolds. This film laments the state of female software engineers...
We often speak about getting more women involved in tech, which is a noble aim, but I think it requires a little more fleshing out. Despite the many tech-focused events and classes I’ve attended and articles I’ve read, I...
When you’re born, the social conditioning begins straight away. Whether they mean to or not, the people around you are influenced by the cultural norms of the society they know, and treat children accordingly. Girls are given...