On May 1st, International Workers’ Day, I will be publicly discussing my job title, my experience and my salary on #talkpay and I urge everyone to do so as well. Pay inequality is an oft-discussed topic. There are measurable pay discrepancies between groups when looking at race and gender which are further exacerbated when someone Read More
The Anita Borg Institute has released their annual list of the Top Companies for Women Technologists. The stated goal is to “recognize companies where women technologists can thrive.” Of the 13 companies named, over half of them — Google, IBM, GoDaddy, Accenture, Rackspace, eBay and Salesforce — are (paying) partners of the Anita Borg Institute. Read More
Recently, a Medium think piece hailed the rise of the full-stack employee. Unlike the full-stack engineer, who can seamlessly go from HTML to database scaling, the full-stack employee doesn’t just concentrate on code. Instead, they’re simultaneously good at all the tech things, and also especially adept in one particular area (which may vary according to Read More
Fetlife is a website that is specifically geared towards kinky people. It’s important to note that Fetlife is not a dating site, but rather a social network that was created by kinky people, for kinky people. Recently, Fetlife has come under fire for a pair of third-party posts, published as “The Fetlife Meatlist”. For these Read More
Most startup advice has a base archetype: the idealized employee. Books, blog posts and conferences are conjured to train the masses on the capture, care and feeding of these prized assets. From this model emerges the 10x engineer, the “wolf,” the T-shaped professional. Just this week Chris Messina has blessed us with the full-stack employee, Read More
Because context is a thing. Trigger Warning/Content Notice: Discussion of extreme online abuse, swatting, death and rape threats, stalking and attempted murder/murder. I’m sure several people at this point are thinking to themselves…morality? A bludgeon? How could morals hurt people? Aren’t morals what keep us all from destroying each other in fits of rage? That’s Read More
The first Quarterly of Model View Culture’s 2015 subscription is shipping in just a few weeks! Cover proof from our print shop, 1984 Printing. While we were supposed to deliver them in March, shipping has been delayed after the independent, woman-owned print shop we work with — 1984 Printing — suffered a severe fire. But Read More
As news spread Friday that Ellen Pao lost her gender discrimination lawsuit against Kleiner Perkins, women in tech and their allies created #ThankYouEllenPao to express their gratitude and reflections on the verdict. Within 12 hours, the hashtag was almost entirely filled with sexist slurs, harassing messages, slander, threats, and bizarre, often violent imagery posted by Read More