Links: Women in Tech

[sonia]

Judith Love Cohen, Jack Black’s Jewish Mom, Was a History-Making Aerospace Engineer by Lior Zaltzman.

“It was really difficult psychologically and emotionally to be better than all the boys in math and science,” she shared with the LA Times. “[The books] really would have helped encourage my feeling good about myself, that this was the direction I wanted to go. I didn’t see role models. I didn’t get encouragement other than at home.” She wrote over 20 books with amazing women collaborators.

Apple punishes women for same behaviors that get men promoted, lawsuit says by Ashley Belanger.

Jong, currently a customer/technical training instructor on Apple's global developer relations/app review team, said that she only became aware of a stark pay disparity by chance.

"One day, I saw a W-2 left on the office printer," Jong said. "It belonged to my male colleague, who has the same job position. I noticed that he was being paid almost $10,000 more than me, even though we performed substantially similar work. This revelation made me feel terrible."

Comments

I'd love to learn more about that connection

[jesse_the_k]

...if you feel like writing it out (or have already written it out).

Re: I'd love to learn more about that connection

[sonia]

I'll give that some thought and write about it some time. Briefly, programming also involves talking with people and finding out what they want, and bodywork also involves analytical skills of noticing details and figuring out how to solve problems.