How to Be a 'Woman Programmer'
There is always that moment when you are alone with the prejudice: the joke, the leer, the disregard, the fact that the moment you walk through the door you are seen as lesser. Ellen Ullman, a former software engineer and the author of the memoir Close to the Machine and the novels The Bug and By Blood, writes in The New York Times.
Violence & Silence: Jackson Katz, Ph.D at TEDxFiDiWomen
Jackson Katz, Phd, is an anti-sexist activist and expert on violence, media and masculinities. An author, filmmaker, educator and social theorist, Katz has worked in gender violence prevention work with diverse groups of men and boys in sports culture and the military, and has pioneered work in critical media literacy.Katz is the creator and co-founder of the Mentors in Violence Prevention (MVP) program, which advocates the 'bystander approach' to sexual and domestic violence prevention. You've also seen him in the award winning documentary "MissRepresentation." 
Chinese woman's death after allegations of gang rape sparks unrest in Beijing
Earlier today, the Beijing Public Security Bureau reported that "non-Beijing residents" were gathering in Fengtai District, in southwest Beijing, to "reflect discontent" with the May 3 death of a woman who had allegedly been gang raped. The death of the woman in question, a 22-year-old worker from Anhui province, occurred hours after she was allegedly gang raped by security guards; authorities determined that there were "no suspicious circumstances."
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