More Community Links on PROGRESS and Diversity from Awesome People Neha Narula & Jean Yang
For our salon in January, we asked our featured guests to submit any links they felt to be helpful to their own thinking and way of being in the world. Jean & Neha led a conversation at the January Drink Salon on Tech & Ethics on diversity issues in STEM.
Here are some links they sent us to share with the Drink Salon community!
Recommended Articles:
Scott Aaron’s comment #171
Silent Technical Privilege in Slate, January 2014
Why women leave the tech industry in LA Times, December 2014
What Silicon Valley Thinks of Women in Newsweek, February 2015
Teams with more women do better in Harvard Business Review, June 2011
Fields where people are thought to require “brilliance” have fewer women in Science, January 2015
On women and performance reviews from FastCompany, August 2014
Group Projects and the Secretary Effect in The Atlantic, January 2015
Writing by Neha & Jean:
Neha, Jean, and Elena on "Why Gender Still Matters" in Wired, December 2012
Jean’s response to Scott Aaronson’s Comment #171 on Quora
"Unintended Consequences," Neha's blog post on female participation in online forums
"C is Manly, Python is for “n00bs”: How False Stereotypes Turn Into Technical “Truths”," Jean’s essay with colleague Ari Rabkin on how social bias masquerades as technical bias when it comes to programming languages in Model View Culture, January 2015
Jean’s Technical Privilege Reading List








