'...we need to debunk the misconception that tech is just for developers.'
This list of books by women in tech is sponsored by The Hive by Barry Lyga and Morgan Baden from KCP Loft.
For starters, girls need to be exposed to computer science at a young age. Somehow, people have gotten it in their minds that boys are more inclined to computer science. But biologically, that couldn’t be farther from the truth. Traditional gender roles are engrained early, and children as young as seven can have ideas about which jobs the binary genders should pursue.
Women have come a long way in the STEM fields, in part because of the work done by the authors in this article, but we still have a long way to go. Enacting change doesn’t happen passively. To disrupt the way things are now, everyone needs to make an intentional effort to lift up women and girls who are pursuing and succeeding in technology.
Close to the Machine by Ellen Ullman In Close to the Machine, Ullman recounts the life of a software engineer running her own computer software business. She shares the seductions of being a programmer, immersed in the abstract world of logic and algorithms, living close to the machine. But programming isn’t strictly technical. Ullman finds that ultimately, she cannot ignore the social and philosophical repercussions of her work.
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