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When Marissa Mayer says "gender is not an issue in tech"

When Joe O'Brien is on a speaker lineup from now on

When a guy giving a talk on AWS says that at Amazon, real men read code

When I see "Titstare" presented at TechCrunch Disrupt

When a guy in line at DEFCON tells me "this would be a good place for you to find a husband"

When I make a mistake and my boss calls me "honey"

When a female rocket scientist's obituary talks about her cooking skills

When 60K signatures later, Kickstarter finally gets the message

When a recruiter's form letter says they're looking for a "go-to guy"

When Kickstarter decides the sexual assault handbook doesn't count as "threatening, abusive, harassing … obscene, [or] offensive"

When I meet other programmers at a bar and one of them tries to order a drink from me

When I try and share this Tumblr and realize I know only one other female engineer … and she's not even in software

When a book teaching sexual assault is over 800% funded on Kickstarter

When a Dell emcee says "All the great inventions are from men...we can thank women for the rolling pin"

When the guys behind me are making "big dongle" jokes at PyCon

When a guy at a pyLadies event asks an organizer during open q&a "why is there not a pyMen's group?"

When I think about working at Virool

Being a female software engineer