Girl Power!

I’ve spent the past few week inundating my friend Ava, the one who starts Hackbright on Monday, with women in tech articles and sites online. She suggested I try to collect them all in one place, so here we go:

Big Sites:

  • Ada Initiative - Conferences, lobbying, mentoring. Lots of good stuff. Articles and video on Impostor Syndrome.
  • Systers - I just joined their mailing list. Lots of interesting discussions. Some of them don’t really apply to me, but it’s all inspiring. I really want to go to the Grace Hopper Celebration someday.
  • Skillcrush - Articles and teachables by women for women. Ava especially loved the Confusion is your friend blog post.
  • Women 2.0 - All sorts of career/education/tech stuff for women.
  • She’s Geeky - General geekiness for women, lots of rotating meetings/‘unconferences’.
  • ChickTech - Currently focused in my hometown, they’ve done some amazing things for high school age girls.
    Individual Articles:

  • Empowering Women By Code - An interesting article and how I learned about Skillcrush.

  • Women in Technology - Small article/AWESOME video clip. Hilarious.
  • Why aren’t more girls attached to physics - An NPR audio clip Ava sent me on why women don’t go in to STEM.
  • Student’s ‘Meltdown’ Blogpost - This isn’t entirely women based, but it does talk a lot about impostor syndrome (everyone seems to get it!) and the original blog meltdown is an interesting/sad/slightly life-affirming read.
  • Miss America is a Nerd! (not really tech, but awesome)
    [This will probably be a continually updated list for a while. I’ll sticky it to the top of the page for now.]