Tag Archives: feminism

Two great pieces on women in tech

posted on 9 February, 2013 also tagged , , ,

There’s recently been a lot of great writing on women and the problem of gender inequality in the tech field. I recommend these three pieces in particular: “Not a Beard” by Mari Huertas, who was a member of Obama’s re-election tech team. In an effort to indicate that the team was more San Francisco than [...]

Women’s suffrage and the world’s oldest person

posted on 29 August, 2012 also tagged ,

The Nineteenth Amendment to the US Constitution, which granted women the right to vote, was ratified 92 years ago this month.1 Less than a century is certainly short enough that some women who are alive today were born without the right to vote. But, then, they would’ve been too young to vote at the time [...]