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DESCRIPTION:The Ruby community has for several years been on the forefron
 t of encouraging women to pick up coding - and the good news is\, more a
 nd more women use the opportunities and pick up basic coding skills. Yet
  it  is another big step for them to become professional developers or c
 ontributors to the tech community. And the bad news: Statistics show tha
 t women are leaving the tech sector at higher rates than they are enteri
 ng it (and also at much higher rates than men). Again\, there is good ne
 ws: Nowadays\, a good part the tech community seems to be very aware its
  lack of diversity and eager to change it. But what exactly can  we do t
 o debug the situation?\n\nThere are widely-published\, extremely frustra
 ting cases of overt discrimination and harassment in the tech community\
 , yet fortunately this is not something every woman in tech experiences.
  While this is good news as well\, it is also bad news because it means 
 that the now common advice of „Don’t be an asshole“ is not enough to sol
 ve the problem. Instead\, research in the fields of psychology and lingu
 istics suggests that there are some general "bugs" in the ways we think\
 , perceive and interact that explain why women feel uncomfortable enteri
 ng and staying in technical roles. Now that we found a bug hiding somewh
 ere deep in our minds\, what can we do about it? In my talk\, I will pro
 pose some „workarounds“ to deal with this "bug"\, falling into three cat
 egories: What any member of the tech community can do\, what women in pa
 rticular can do and what community leaders can do.
URL:http://programm.froscon.de/2014/events/1450.html
SUMMARY:Not being an asshole is not enough
ORGANIZER:froscon2014
LOCATION:froscon2014 - RedFrogConf (C118)
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