Talking about geeks and gender and sex
Law nerd David Levine just had me on his podcast, Hearsay Culture, to chat about all kinds of things, including female geeks vs. male geeks. I had a lot of fun chatting with him. You can listen to the podcast here. I wound up being fairly rambly in places, and made judicious use of the fine word “um,” but I was excited to get a chance to talk about my theory of why hacker culture is so macho. And why female geeks worry so much about looking feminine – or not.
October 22nd, 2009 at 10:19 am
the women who stay vs women who leave reminds me of some of the discussion around women in the trades. back when i was an electrician, in the 1980′s, it was staggeringly male-dominated. i was a merit shop electrician, but something the (iirc) first woman to go thru the whole program in the local IBEW union local said really resonated for me — there’s pioneers, who manage to go there and be first, and there’s settlers, who go there and stay.