No more are the comments about the technical correctness of ideas being discussed – nope, suddenly there’s snide sexual innuendos that slide in. Women are being “bitches” if they fight for their ideas, but, hey, if I (a guy) strongly advocate my idea, that’s just fine. And, that’s just the…
Etsy Will Send 20 Women to Summer Hacker School
Etsy, the handmade goods marketplace fueling the online community of crafty entrepreneurs, wants to give women in technology a boost. The ecommerce network is driven by a large community of female vendors and buyers, but Etsy‘s own engineers and operations managers don’t reflect its audience. [More from Mashable: 13 Products…
Etsy to send female programmers to summer hacker school
Etsy, the online marketplace for handmade goods, is sending women to Hacker School this summer. Marc Hedlund, Etsy’s vice president of engineering, said that in his career he has hired hundreds of men but only dozens of women. “Other managers I know have reported similar experiences,” Hedlund wrote in a…