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My Male-Centric View of the World

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I was coming back from a week at Heroku's offices last month (I have started working there in March), when I managed to get stuck in the Philadelphia airport for over ten hours for missing a connection by roughly five minutes. I ended up meeting with Marc K. Hébert, a fellow at Code For America and PhD who is a UX/Ethnographic researcher.

I was coming back from a week at Heroku's offices last month (I have started working there in March), when I managed to get stuck in the Philadelphia airport for over ten hours for missing a connection by roughly five minutes. I ended up meeting with Marc K. Hébert, a fellow at Code For America and PhD who is a UX/Ethnographic researcher. Given how long we had, we discussed all kinds of things from our respective occupations, and the topic eventually came to the lack of diversity in programming communities and many related workplaces. There's an obvious imbalance in the male/female ratio,…

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