Tackling the gender imbalance in Tech – Resource Library
Bryn is on a one-man mission to tackle the gender imbalance in tech and generously donates his time and provides his own resources to do just that.
For the last six years, Bryn has run a weekly maker club for senior students at St Margaret’s College an independent girls’ school here in Christchurch. In addition, Bryn also works with students from Ara, St Andrew’s College and Burnside High School on a regular basis.
We were delighted to have Bryn Lewis speak at our Canterbury Tech monthly event on the 6th of July 2021. The YouTube recording is here; Bryn’s presentation starts at 46mins and 7 seconds in.
Here he shares some resources for those who are interested in learning more about the subject…
The podcast
https://www.npr.org/sections/money/2014/10/21/357629765/when-women-stopped-coding
The books
https://www.amazon.com/Invisible-Women-Data-World-Designed/dp/1419735217
https://www.amazon.com/Programmed-Inequality-Discarded-Technologists-Computing/dp/0262535181
https://www.amazon.com/Technically-Wrong-Sexist-Algorithms-Threats/dp/0393356043
Code Documentary – Debugging the Gender Gap
Other related articles
Megan Smith – Former Chief Technology Officer of the United States
More forgotten pioneers
Dame Steve Shirley – some my favourite stories, having to go to the boys’ school to do advanced maths & the recording of someone typing to hide the noise of the small person in the playpen in the corner of the room while on a business call.
http://ideas.ted.com/how-dame-stephanie-shirley-upended-tech-world-sexism-in-the-1960s/
The Right Stuff, Wrong Sex, NASA’s lost female astronauts.
http://www.wired.com/2009/10/mercury-13/
Developing software for the Apollo space program
http://www.wired.com/2015/10/margaret-hamilton-nasa-apollo/
https://www.nasa.gov/feature/the-story-of-joann-morgan/
