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Yeah, that seems to be true. So they showed me nothing about how his acedmics, the campus and broader technical community shaped him. Just him and his guy friends hanging out in a dorm and giving themselves a nickname.

To be clear, it’s surprising they included these women at all. It made it easy for me to show that their narrative is sexist. As a woman in technology, I can speak to the fact that we (and other underrepresented groups) are usually present, but the media generally sticks to the boys club unless they are explicitly…

totally true — if you read the article they mention that the president of a club all these guys belong to (NU Hacks) is a woman. So, wired just didn’t feel like profiling a woman.

If you actually read the article, they talk about a club “NU Hacks” that has two women, including the president. Yet they chose to profile and picture only a group of boys for their article. So they had an opportunity to portray some diversity but instead decided to talk up a group of friends. This is why women are…

I don’t have prolapse but I’m approaching 2 years post-partum with #2 and realizing that things just aren’t right. With #1, it took awhile, but by this point I felt like I had reached the new normal. I understand your feelings — for me it partly has to do with how terrible I have been about my own health since…

Polish Catholic family here. I think John Paul II would be about #5 on that list. Favorite exclamation in my family growing up when something was very obvious was “Is the pope Polish?” One of my uncle’s had a girlfriend once that responded by saying “I don’t think so...”
We never saw her again...

I went through a similar evolution — my almost 5 y/o now wears dresses or skirts every day. I don’t fight her on style or matching, just focus on comfort (will you be cold in that?) and preserving special items (1-2 special occasion dresses and one pair of fancy shoes). Oh, and we do have a rule about wearing…

my daughter became instant friends with two other girls when they all started preschool two years ago. all my attempts to arrange playdates failed, while their parents hang out on weekends and they take turns hiring a baby sitter for the early release days. i don’t even think they’re awful, it’s just one of those…

I got invited to a superbowl party by one of my swim team friends. I don’t even like football, but I didn’t have any better plans. Then I ended up trapped in a basement while they were praying, including a very specific prayer for a (fellow Unitarian/atheist) family friend. And I tried to go to the bathroom, but they…

Our first attempt at pantless weekend and potty training resulted in lots of puddles and my pregnant ass giving up. A week after her brother was born, my daughter announced diapers were for babies. My husband and I enthusiastically agreed and bought her $30 of whatever underwear she wanted. This all worked well except…

i see this and my immediate thought: he’s underpaying. i used to work at a large corporate behemoth that was slow to change their paygrades to reflect current demands on technical talent but had a lot of lawyers on staff, so hiring H1-B was the easiest way to get someone into a position. if you got an exceptional…

yeah, check out how great it is for women looking for funding. again, a bunch of (mostly white) dudes control the funding. the whole “meritocracy” premise of silicon valley consistently comes back to a network of people who like people that look like them...

yeah, i’ll be honest, i’m just floating some solutions i’ve seen suggested but my personal solution is to not give such teams the benefit of working with me. i started a new job a couple months ago and i interviewed while still pumping for my second kid and asked for access to a mother’s room at each company. result…

how about a company building a “health kit” actually track major indicators for women’s health? or consider that female users might have slightly different tastes? how about a fucking mckinsey report on how gender diversity correlates with better financial performance (http://www.mckinsey.com/business-functions/organiz…

you’re right - if the “meshing” with the team is a major criteria, you will not see an improvement of diversity no matter what else happens. however, there are ways to try to counteract that.

90% of the applicants are male, but do you really primarily hire from the hose of randoms you get off website submissions? what percent of your hires are actually referrals? because i’ve been working in tech for a decade and was a hiring manager for 5 years, and (especially in senior technical positions), we relied…

little kids have the best resting bitch face.

i have hungry ballerina pics from my daughter’s first halloween (she had a tutu, ballet shoes and a bow as big as her head). for my son, i went for a tiger costume that was basically pjs with a hood. however, your angry pumpkin is perfect.

this! i told my daughter to stop doing this after a little poop ball that had been wedged between her butt cheeks ended up on the bathmat...