Sexism in Tech
Written by: Gina Helfrich Austin is fortunate to have a fairly large array of women-in-tech groups. If you’re a woman in tech or a woman thinking of getting into tech, you will find a ton of great resources and gatherings by organizations like Women Who Code, Girl Develop It, PyLadies, Austin All-Girl Hack Night, and SheHacks/SheDesigns (and this magazine!).
Gina Helfrich Photo by: Danie Selby
As we all know by now, men are overrepresented in the technology sector in all roles, and particularly in engineering. Lots of work is being done by great organizations and schools to get more girls and women to choose tech as a career path. Just getting women in the door isn’t the end of it, however. More than half of women who enter the tech industry subsequently leave it,¹ often because of the “thousand tiny paper
“It is a common feature of oppressive systems to place the burden of resolving problems on the shoulders of the oppressed.”