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There’ll be women at your event? Great! …oh.
The people over at Sqoot have pulled off a classy move with the promotional materials for their tech event, advertising it as featuring “everything awesome”—including massage, top-shelf booze and women.
We hopped over to investigate and asked their live chat about it.
Still insanely hoping for a world in which the idea of women being represented at a tech event isn’t a joke, ourselves.
You’d be surprised at how some guys in tech think it’s okay to make women at tech events out to be some sort of incentive (like “top shelf booze”) or a sideshow display.
Regardless of whether it’s a “joke” or not, if you advertise women as an incentive, your audience will have expectations of those women - and that can be a precursor to sexual abuse. Even if it doesn’t come to that, at the very least you managed to make someone feel small and like they do not belong.
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“We need to get girls interested in computing by first grade. By fifth grade, it’s game over. Computing has an image crisis. A boy geek subculture has grown up around gaming that involves violence. It’s not something little girls aspire to. It’s not about lack of educational opportunities for women. Smart girls graduate from high school with straight A’s, go to college, and find themselves surrounded by guys who’ve been hacking for 10 years. So they’re way behind. They get discouraged, and go into law or medicine.” — Audrey MacLean, Why Women Have an Advantage in Technology (NYT)(via webstartwomen)
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Vogue’s February issue feature Future Shock is all about bright colors and technology - two of my favorite things. It almost makes me want to cut & dye my hair blue like Ms. Maren and buy a Toshiba. Almost.
By the way - that is indeed a custom painted iPad in the middle photograph.
