Reposting a link to my blog about role models from a few years ago.
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Reposting a link to my blog about role models from a few years ago. It is as relevant as ever. Things aren't improving, and the tech bros (ever hear the term "tech sis"?) rise to ever greater, unstoppable power and influence.
The power of role models
I spent a few days a while back in a board meeting for a national astronomy organization and noticed a property of the population in that ro...
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Joscelyn Transpiringreplied to rob pike last edited by
@robpike a tech sis sounds like a cool older sister with 90s hair that shows you how to solder your own circuits and programs you a fun little game as a birthday present.
I AM HEAR FOR A TECH SIS
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@robpike all important points and well made and agreement all around.
But it got me thinking, is there a chance that compared to astronomy (and likely other academic fields), tech is just a shittier field not worth the time of talented and intelligent women who nope out not just because of the corrosive culture but because many of those who could become role models have got better things to do?
Not trying to apologise at all, just wondering if the issue is even deeper than male culture.
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Another way of putting this is whether tech has been so wholly “masculinised” that the nature of the tech itself is deeply toxic not to mention the culture of framing and assessing “value” in and around working with tech. All to the point than when a talented non-masculine person is excluded, they can easily look at the industry and how it works and see that the whole thing is rotten to the core.