Being an Effective Male Ally

by Toria Gibbs

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Being an Effective Male Ally Toria Gibbs @scarletdrive Ian Malpass @indec Aug 11, 2016

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Feminism 3 “Feminism is the radical notion that women are people.” - Marie Shear

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Intersectional Feminism 4 Women can also be members of other marginalized groups

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Privilege 5 You’ve got it

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Patriarchy 7 Male-dominated power structures

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Unconscious Bias 8 Literally everyone is a little bit sexist

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Microaggression 10 “You’re too pretty to be a developer.” “You’re really good at football for a woman!” “Going out with the guys tonight; leaving the old ball and chain at home.”

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Ally 11 Use your privilege to help non-privileged folks

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via OutFront Minnesota http://www.outfront.org/strategicplan

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BUT HOW??? 13

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14 ● Power and authority ● Access ● Amplification ● Modeling ● Teaching What do allies offer us?

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15 10 Steps to Being an Effective Male Ally

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Educate yourself http://codeascraft.com/2016/08/10/recommended-reading-for-allies/

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Expand your network

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Listen and believe

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Notice the small stuff

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Teach others

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Amplify women

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Recruit women Stop blaming the pipeline

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Model good work/life balance

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Let women lead

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Show up Don’t expect a cookie

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Thanks!

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Acknowledgements Sara Gorecki Lauren Sperber Katie Sylor-Miller Lara Hogan Maggie Zhou Vicky Lee Katherine Daniels Caoimhe Cooney Jennie King Niamh Donnelley Amy Dyer Kate Higham

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Sources “Lower wages for the same work; overall lower wages in industries dominated by women.” http://www.payscale.com/data-packages/gender-pay-gap “Diverse teams with diverse perspectives build better products.” https://hbr.org/2016/04/were-making-the-wrong-case-for-diversity-in-silicon-valley “Reporting discrimination can negatively impact your career.” https://www.tnwinc.com/2600/retaliation-rise-reporting/ “We tend to significantly overestimate the actual amount of time women spend talking.” http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20131112-do-women-talk-more-than-men http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0142716400008882

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Sources “OS contributions by women are accepted at a lower rate when their gender is known.” https://peerj.com/preprints/1733/ “The pipeline problem is somewhat correct, but entirely misleading.” https://medium.com/tech-diversity-files/if-you-think-women-in-tech-is-just-a-pipeline-problem-you-haven-t-be en-paying-attention-cb7a2073b996 “Women earn 18% of CS degrees today, but earned 37% of CS degrees in 1984.” http://www.computerworld.com/article/2474991/it-careers/women-computer-science-grads--the-bump-before- the-decline.html

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Women to follow on Twitter Atefeh Riazi @UN_CITO Camille Fournier @skamille Cate Huston @catehstn Erica Joy @EricaJoy Kimberly Bryant @6Gems Lara Hogan @lara_hogan Reshma Saujani @reshmasaujani Vanessa Hurst @DBNess

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Introductory feminism ● http://geekfeminism.wikia.com/wiki/Feminism_101 ● http://www.xyonline.net/content/feminism-101-helpful-hints-dudes ● https://www.amazon.com/Feminism-Everybody-Passionate-bell-hooks/dp/0896086283 (book) Why do we need feminism? Analogies on privilege ● https://medium.com/@nkkl/ride-like-a-girl-1d5524e25d3a ● http://whatever.scalzi.com/2012/05/15/straight-white-male-the-lowest-difficulty-setting-there-is/ On allyship ● http://www.guidetoallyship.com/ ● http://www.fastcompany.com/3046555/strong-female-lead/the-tricky-and-necessary-business-of-being-a-male-advoc ate-for-gender-equ ● http://www.shakesville.com/2013/04/on-fixed-state-ally-model-vs-process.html Suggested Reading

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Suggested Reading Studies, reports ● https://www.ncwit.org/resources/women-tech-facts-2015-16-update ● https://www.ncwit.org/resources/male-advocates-and-allies-promoting-gender-diversity-technology-workplaces ● https://www.amazon.com/Unlocking-Clubhouse-Women-Computing-Press/dp/0262632691 Opinion pieces, personal experiences ● https://modelviewculture.com/pieces/diversity-for-sale ● https://medium.com/the-web-we-make/the-year-i-didnt-retweet-men-79403a7eade1 ● https://medium.com/@colmdoyle/families-and-tech-companies-c672d7db0f5 ● http://qz.com/659196/i-had-so-many-advantages-and-i-barely-made-it-pinterests-tracy-chou-on-sexism-in-tech/ ● http://www.newstatesman.com/laurie-penny/on-nerd-entitlement-rebel-alliance-empire ● https://byrslf.co/the-women-in-tech-movement-is-victim-blaming-bullshit-1861e6fffedf ● http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2014/12/08/tech-s-male-feminists-aren-t-helping.html

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Suggested Reading Blogs, magazines ● https://geekfeminism.org/ ● https://modelviewculture.com/ Other fun stuff ● http://arementalkingtoomuch.com/ ● https://implicit.harvard.edu/implicit/takeatest.html ● https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLn4ob_5_ttEaA_vc8F3fjzE62esf9yP61 (via https://feministfrequency.com) ● http://ncase.me/polygons/