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Rows and rows of empty chairs.
Issue 36 by Heather O’Neill on April 27th, 2016
Attempts to get -- and keep -- more women in tech put the onus solely on women themselves… at tremendous time and cost.
A cherry pie made out of Legos.
2015 Year in Review by Amy Nguyen on December 14th, 2015
If we reach our numerical goals only to look in the mirror and see all the corruption that already existed, we will have failed.
Cross-section of a cut tree, with many rings radiating towards the bark.
Issue 27 by Catherine Lundoff on September 14th, 2015
Ignoring the jobs and the places where a lot of older women IT workers are employed helps to keep us invisible.
A bingo card with categories including 'Name drops Sheryl Sandberg', 'That would never happen in my company', 'Pipeline', 'We're all in this together', 'Men's voices need to be heard too', 'Lean In', and 'Says feminist activism scares women away from tech.'
2014 in Review by Anonymous Author on December 5th, 2014
The commoditization of diversity in tech.
A vintage black and white photograph of two women, backs turned to the camera, working at an IBM punch card computer about the size of two large xerox machines.
Lean Out by Amelia Abreu on February 24th, 2014
Women’s lives have been subjected to quantification for decades.
Joan of Arc illustration on vintage Harper's magazine cover.
Lean Out by Nancy Householder Hauge on February 24th, 2014
If you are a woman CEO, no matter how good or bad you are, at some point they are going to burn you at the stake.
Sandberg, shown on a judging panel.
Lean Out by Shanley Kane on February 24th, 2014
The ultimate message of Lean In ideology is transparent in the name itself: Stay in the machine. Work for the machine. Appease the machine.
The author working in a chemistry lab.
Lean Out by Fay H. on February 24th, 2014
Why I Left, How I Left, and What It Would Have Taken to Keep Me in STEM
The Author's re-creation of her childhood 'Super Mom' drawing, described above.
Lean Out by Alicia Liu on February 24th, 2014
The Hidden Realities of Leaning In