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I'm genuinely curious -- does the women in tech movement advocate for improvements in the treatment of such operational staff (HR, admin, etc.) or is the narrat

I'm genuinely curious -- does the women in tech movement advocate for improvements in the treatment of such operational staff (HR, admin, etc.) or is the narrative mostly limited to engineering (and maybe including product and marketing)?

Kalium 12y ago
That will vary wildly depending on who you ask. A lot of attention and people are focused mainly on engineering, and we probably hear about those the most, but there is certainly a broader spread of attention too.
geofft 12y ago
Yes. Model View Culture, which is as good a sample of tech feminism as any, published this good piece on exactly the subject: https://modelviewculture.com/pieces/the-myth-of-the-non-technical-startup-employee https://modelviewculture.com/pieces/the-myth-of-the-non-tech...
- Kalium 12y ago
  If Shanley is the touchstone of good tech feminism, then it's time to give up and pack it all in.
  - geofft 12y ago
    I chose my words carefully. :) The topics in Model View Culture are a good representative sample of the topics popular in tech feminism, the article isn't by her, and it was published while Amelia Greenhall was still involved in the publication, for whatever that's worth. (Also, if your impression of Shanley is her Twitter feed, it's worth being aware that MVC is pretty different.)
    - Kalium 12y ago
      I gather my impressions of Shanley from the parts of herself she chooses to show the world, both on Twitter and otherwise. I found her extremely hostile reaction to a journalist writing a profile of her very interesting.