When I tell people that one of my personal goals is to bring more women into tech, and that I plan to do so by making tech learning fun and accessible, a lot of people - usually men - worry that what I am doing is patronizing. They worry that I am peddling a “dumbed down” version of tech learning, and that I think women need to be shielded from the “harder stuff.” Inherent in this argument is the idea that this “harder stuff” - a more difficult, less accessible version of things - is the real version and thus the better version. But what if the more difficult, less accessible version is just that? Unnecessarily difficult and inaccessible?
Skillcrush’s Adda Birnir speaks with Gina Trapani and Ashley Milne-Tyte about the status of women in the tech industry. Academic and tech-feminist Vivek Wadwa weighs in.
Via The Broad Experience.
(Source: thebroadexperience.com / ashleymilnetyte)
