[Chennaipy] Diversity in Chennaipy

[James Mortensen]

While I have mixed feelings about a separate group, there already is a
group in Chennai that caters to women, via LeanIn Circles, inspired by
Sheryl Sandberg's book, Lean In.

Many of my colleagues are in this list, including the only two women who
attended the Python workshop in February.  I have reached out to their
group founder to invite them to participate in our group at the end of the
month.

http://leanincircles.org/circle/thesherylnetwork


James

Phone: * 866-707-4590*

On Thu, May 14, 2015 at 9:10 AM, Kiran Gangadharan <me at kirang.in> wrote:

>
>
> On Wed, May 13, 2015, at 09:34 PM, Shrayas rajagopal wrote:
> > On Wed, May 13, 2015 at 1:56 PM, James Mortensen
> > <james.mortensen at synclio.com> wrote:
> >
> > [...]
> >
> > > I have a theory that encouragement can go a long way.  If you're a
> student,
> > > invite the women in your classes to attend Chennaipy.  If you work,
> invite
> > > women in your office.  If you have a sister or daughter, encourage her
> to go
> > > out into the world and make it her own.  Don't try to "protect" her
> with
> > > different rules or ideologies.  It's not protecting, it's restricting.
> >
> > well said. +1
> >
> > > With that said, I don't think a separate group would help; it would
> just
> > > make this problem worse.  This just perpetuates the idea that women
> need to
> > > be "protected".  For this to work, we need to create an environment of
> > > respect for everyone, tolerance, and the idea of personal
> responsibility for
> > > all of our actions.
> >
> > While I very much agree with you James, I think that an org like
> > PyLadies helps with the initial hurdle of getting women into
> > technology. Usually, it is this part that is very important as it can
> > make or break an impression. PyLadies IMO is a great way to foster
> > that impression and help bring focus to the technology where it should
> > rightfully be.
>
> While PyLadies could be a good initiative, something like that makes
> sense if we
> can identify key people who can help develop such a community and take
> it from there.
> With the kind of audience that we presently have, I don't think it's
> feasible to think
> about a seperate group for now.
>
> >
> > The fact is that we *dont* have / aren't trying hard enough to create
> > the environment that you talk about. In an idealistic scenario that is
> > how it should be. But in reality it really isn't that way (as you have
> > remarked yourself). Reality expects, as Jacob said, you to be a
> > "great" programmer or it expects you to be "cut out for" technology.
> > PyLadies helps in that exact area. The focus on technology would give
> > confidence (or clarity) to face what reality holds.
> >
> > I very much look up to all the women in tech. For them to have braced
> > all that the community throws at them and stand their ground is worth
> > much praise.
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