{"id":1314,"date":"2014-07-11T16:04:20","date_gmt":"2014-07-11T16:04:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hannahdee.wales\/blog\/?p=1314"},"modified":"2016-01-26T10:43:41","modified_gmt":"2016-01-26T10:43:41","slug":"computer-weekly-women-in-it-awards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hannahdee.wales\/blog\/?p=1314","title":{"rendered":"Computer weekly women in IT awards"},"content":{"rendered":"

Last Thursday I went to London for the Computer Weekly women in IT awards. I was invited to speak at the event, as well as being shortlisted. I chose to talk about the undergraduate experience: the BCSWomen Lovelace Colloquium for women undergrads, why I set it up, and what it’s actually like for undergraduate women in UK universities right now. The culture of uni in general has got a lot more laddish in recent years, and social media doesn’t help that at all. I also drew heavily on the excellent book “Unlocking the clubhouse<\/a>“, which came out over a decade ago, and which covers a lot of the problems we’re still suffering from. The talk went well, I think – lots of people came up to me afterwards to discuss it anyway. I think there’ll be some video of the talk up on CW later, and I’ll link that in when I see it.<\/p>\r\n\r\n

I’m in the program!<\/small><\/p>\r\n\r\n

The other talks were a mixed bag; some of them were really interesting and evidence based talks about women in business, and others were a bit “men are from mars, women are from venus”, which is (in my not so humble opinion) a massive oversimplification that doesn’t do the women or the men any favours. It’s like horoscopes for people who can only count to two.<\/p>\r\n

I think it’s really important to understand that there are benefits to a diverse workforce, and that women bring benefits to the workplace, but that this doesn’t imply that all women bring empathy<\/i> or some other soft skills stuff, or that all guys are systematisers<\/i> or some other Simon Baron-Cohen stuff… There are as many ways to be a woman in tech as there are women in tech<\/b>, the same is true for the guys, and we really need to hang on to that idea. Yes we are<\/i> all special snowflakes. (And the people in Marketing might not be able to grab that concept, but hey, they’re in Marketing, you can’t expect them to be that sharp.)<\/p>\r\n\r\n

Some of the talks were a bit stereotypical:-(<\/small><\/p>\r\n

Then they announced the winners, counting down… and I got the number 15 slot. Check out the full list here<\/a>, there are some truly impressive women on there.<\/p>\r\n\r\n

Number 15, baby<\/small><\/p>\r\n

After a celebratory beer and a rather nice curry, we drove back to Aber via the mountain road. It’s nice to go to London, but it’s also nice to get back…<\/p>\r\n\r\n

Always nice to get back to bustling mid-Wales<\/small><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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