"Study: Female students wary of the engineering workplace."

Maria Klawe

"What could be wrong with a gentleman opening a door for a lady? According to some social psychologists, such acts endorse gender stereotypes: the idea that women are weak and need help; that men are powerful patriarchs. Now a study has looked at how women are perceived when they accept or reject an act of so-called "benevolent sexism"* and it finds that they're caught in a double-bind. Women who accept help from a man are seen as warmer, but less competent. Women who reject help are seen as more competent, but cold. ..."

“We’ll know we have parity when mediocre black women get funding for bad ideas at the same rate as mediocre white men.”

ok y'all - wtf??? rt @kcornwall You're gonna hate this one

"The United States’ ability to be not just a global leader but even a competitive participant in technology will depend largely on a massive infusion of women and underrepresented racial and ethnic minorities in the fields of science, technology, engineering and math, or STEM. "

thoughtful post on a much-hacked topic RT @shefaly: Blogged: "Women in tech" #gender #technology Great comments too

LOL "why are there so few girl engineers?" /via @geekgirldiva

Hell yeah! RT @missrogue New post: Women Women Blah Blah Blah | HPC http://bit.ly/5lM6bZ

"It's easier for a female to start her own company than to move through the ranks of a big corporation. You don't have to ask anyone's permission in a start-up."

Women in Technology (WIT, not to be confused with WITI, or Women in Technology International) yesterday revealed the 19 women who are finalists for the organization's eighth annual leadership awards.

And the women (like me) who try to ignore them. Or at least I did -- until the Kathy Sierra affair.

Gee, a tiny bit of the rampant bullshit that’s directed at women online finally makes the news. Maybe now all those idiots who tell us it’s not a problem and we shouldn’t let it bother us with get a clue?

...each time women have become the most frequent users of a popular and brand new communication technology, narratives emerge in the mass media and eventually in the popular psyche about the dangers awaiting women who use technology alone.

Ahh, the feminine mystique. Aside from the fuzzy math -- how can an IT skills crisis get 50% worse if women don't make up half the IT workforce? -- it's hard to know whether women should applaud or take offense.

Slashdot has become the hub of the tech world. So why do many of its users seem like sexist dicks?

Like a girl