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She writes:
I am producing an (un)conference for women working in technology called
She's Geeky in October...Please pass the word along to women working
in tech that you think might enjoy attending the event.
She's Geeky
www.shesgeeky.org
A Women's Tech (un)conference
October 22-23 in Mountain View, CA.
This event is designed to bring together women from a range of
technology-focused disciplines who self identify as geeky. Our goal is to
support skill exchange and learning between women working in diverse fields
and to create a space for networking and to talk about issues faced by women
in technology.
I posted about the event and gone into some more detail about my motivations and hopes
here.
Back in the days when I went to university in Erlangen, Germany, our first-year class
of just over 300 electrical engineering students had exactly 8 women (I counted).
And they were dropping out at a faster rate than the guys, too. Fortunately,
Silicon Valley has a much better ratio, but it's still far from 50:50.
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