[Baypiggies] More Female Engineers at BayPiggies and PyCon?

[Shannon -jj Behrens]

On Tue, Jun 9, 2009 at 9:48 PM, Glen Jarvis<glen at glenjarvis.com> wrote:
> Someone asked, so here are a few ways to encourage it:
> ....
>
> May I add a fourth point?
> Rely heavily on the advice and input from the women we already have in this
> group. Donna's a great resource. However, I know that Alison has been at a
> few BayPIGgies lately, and I'm certain there are others that I'm not
> immediately thinking of. In fact, I'd let them drive this as much as they
> wanted to (if they want to)...
> Cheers,

Anna gave a talk about this at PyCon a few years back.  What's always
amazed me is that the number of female engineers went *down*.  It used
to be much higher.

-jj

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