Addressing sexism to build a better Ruby community
summary
Reports show 20 percent of software engineers are women and only 1.5 percent of open source contributions come from women, and programs like RailsBridge and RailsGirls exist but retention is the big failure point. Advice is concrete: challenge sexist comments in private or public, invite women into hiring, mentoring and events, measure whether numbers and retention improve, and change norms around unwanted sexual attention rather than dismissing victims or offering evolutionary excuses.
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chapters (18)
- 0:00Talk introduction
- 1:29Gender roles and sexism
- 5:44Women in programming gaps
- 7:11Women in early computing
- 8:13Female programmer's story
- 13:09Personal to broader sexism
- 16:18Challenging sexism in tech
- 18:25Sexism and masculinity
- 19:48Men's reactions to sexism
- 21:11Not all men are sexist
- 23:39Sexual attention as compliment
- 25:44When to speak up
- 26:47Nerd oppression and intersectionality
- 28:35Evolutionary gender stories
- 31:02False accusations fear
- 33:28Male privilege and listening
- 35:51Personal accountability
- 37:18Closing remarks
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