Women in Rails
summary
Proposes concrete fixes: run monthly RailsBridge workshops targeting designers, returners and non-CS hires, release the slide sets and exercises for reuse, and use a Google Moderator queue for questions; insist conferences offer childcare/nursery provided and short-term sponsored tickets. Notes numbers: Calgary group has ~120 on the list with ~10 monthly attendees, and cited female participation ~2–3% in open source versus ~20–25% in enterprise. Encourages one-on-one outreach, mentoring, apprenticeships and community-maintained training paths.
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chapters (9)
- 0:00Start
- 1:11Google Moderator Group
- 1:50Sarah Mae
- 2:07Lori Olson
- 4:54Being More Visible in the Community
- 6:28The Calgary Ruby User Group
- 23:35Perception of the Educators
- 28:11Should Women Be Given Discounts or Free Tickets to Rails Comp
- 33:45Imposter Syndrome
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