The Broad Experience 24: Women in tech speak up

The Broad Experience

Careers, Society & Culture, Business

5.0 • 592 Ratings

🗓️ 5 August 2013

⏱️ 11 minutes

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Let's face it, no matter what women do for a living, they're far less likely than men to feel comfortable in any kind of spotlight. The Write/Speak/Code conference for women in technology set out to change that. Tune in to hear three different voices discussingWhy women have trouble saying what we think in a professional contextWhy it's hard for women to claim expertise (and how to get over that)The importance of speaking in publicBluffing (start cultivating your bluffing powers)Why being referred to as a 'woman in technology' is incredibly irritating

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Broad Experience, the show about women, the workplace and success.
0:07.3	I'm Ashley Milne Tite.
0:09.0	This time we drop in on a conference aimed at women in technology.
0:13.0	In an early episode of the show, we talked about how few women work in technology and why.
0:18.0	But for those women who are pursuing careers in tech, it can feel lonely out there.
0:23.3	Relatively few women are out in public, writing blog posts or op-eds about their subject or speaking
0:28.9	at conferences. Lots of men are doing both. The truth is that women face a different judgment
0:36.1	from the audience than men do.
0:38.4	And a lot of women know that, and they're not necessarily eager to put themselves up on a stage
0:43.1	where the first comment or the first thought amongst the audience is going to be,
0:47.9	why are you even up there? What do you know?
0:51.3	Coming up on the broad experience.
1:02.7	Music you know. Coming up on the broad experience. Earlier this summer, I dropped in on a conference for women technologists.
1:06.4	It was held in New York and it was called Write, Speak, Code.
1:09.8	The idea was to make women in tech who want to be a bit more visible in their industry comfortable with publishing pieces about what they do, speaking in public and contributing more to open source software. Rebecca Miller-Webster is a software
1:22.6	and it was her idea to put on this conference. She told me open source software is a bit like Wikipedia, the online encyclopedia,
1:30.4	in that anyone can contribute.
1:32.2	In this case, they're contributing code.
1:34.6	So why do so few women add anything to open source projects?
1:38.7	I think there's a lot of reasons for that.
1:41.1	I think the biggest one is that people find it very intimidating. You know,
1:45.0	your code is in the open. People see it. They can comment on it. So we're sort of trying
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