Barbie has her 125th career – computer engineer! There’s been a few comments around about how Mattel are pandering to further stereotypes – sticking her in a pair of pink glasses is enough to insinuate that she’s now “intellectual”. I don’t think that’s all that bad. The glasses thing, sure, I’m a [...]
Tag Archives: women in technology
Della – Dell netbooks for women?
May 13, 2009 – 10:55 am
I recently opted to replace my first generation Asus EEE 701. It’s very convenient and mostly functional, but I decided I wasn’t finding it the best thing in the world for really Getting Stuff Done™ outside of sending a few emails.
I chose to get one of the new Samsung NC20s. I highly recommend [...]
Women of the web
May 23, 2008 – 1:02 pm
Yet again the subject of women in our industry has reared its head and yet again I find myself basically fuming. Why exactly do we keep rehashing this discussion? Can’t we just get over it, already?
Okay, first things first – I realise there’s a wider discussion about women in any industry, and specifically [...]
Web Design Survey 2007 – Maybe not so hard-done by?
October 17, 2007 – 10:44 am
I haven’t even started looking through this properly yet, but Patrick just brought to my attention the results of the A List Apart Web Design Survey 2007 and it’s a great read so far.
Being the unwilling complainer and non-supporter of discrimination (either the negative or the positive types), I’m always especially interested in those bits [...]