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Imagine the following scene - you get into the car for a 14+ hour a drive to a wedding with a couple of groomsmen. Also travelling with you is a friend of the groom - an individual you've never met before. Within 45 minutes, after telling a story about how his sister accidentally downloaded some spyware to her computer, he says the following words, "And that's why girls shouldn't be allowed to use computers." Knowing that, round-trip, I had to spend close to 30 hours in a car with this individual (not to mention the wedding and surrounding events) I bit my tongue. In fact, I bit it so hard that I darned near bit it clean off. I only wish that any of the following techy Canadian women bloggers had been in the car with me.
My Name Is Kate blogs about marketing, technology and other juicy tidbits. Check out her recent postings on her experiment with Genebase and the DNA Ancestry Project and one of many reasons she loves Typepad.
EyeSee blogs about technology, engineering, photography, business and whatever else catches her fancy. She recently came across a 1943 Guide to Hiring Women, including "Eleven Tips on Getting More Efficiency Out of Women Employees. Check out this golden nugget of advice:
2. When you have to use older women, try to get ones who have worked outside the home at some time in their lives. Older women who have never contacted the public have a hard time adapting themselves and are inclined to be cantankerous and fussy. It’s always well to impress upon older women the importance of friendliness and courtesy.
You really must click through and read them all! Oh how I wish this had been around when I lived in Toronto - Toronto Geek Girl Dinners
Toronto Girl Geek Dinners are an offshoot of the London Girl Geek Dinners, started by Sarah Blow. The goal of these get-togethers is to make technology accessible and interesting to all age groups and all people, particularly women.
Go check them out and maybe contribute your thoughts on whether whether social media will bring more women to tech.
For the Canadian entrepreneurial theres Women 2.0 Canada. The original Silicon Valley Women 2.0 now hosts chapters in Toronto and Ottawa. Check out their Women 2.0 Canada Event Wiki to see if anything is happening near you.
Contributing Editor Sassymonkey blogs at Sassymonkey and Sassymonkey Reads.
