within a college or university). Work in other divisions—if you’re a researcher, work in a product division for a time; if you’re a hardware or software engineer, work on a diversity of projects. Be flex- ible, and take on challenges—and make sure you have a manager who sees that you’re doing so. Doing all this requires that you have
some freedom and flexibility, includ- ing flexibility to walk out of bad situa- tions. That is not always easy, especially if there are children and/or a partner to work your life around. But having that freedom is important to being successful, so trying to build some flexibility into your work life is important. Finally, keep learning. Read. Read about the industry, read about manage- ment, read about leadership. Take ad- vantage of training courses, of seminars at the Grace Hopper Celebration, and of those run by the Anita Borg Institute, by CRA-W, etc. 6. How do you stay current in your technical field?
I read. I read broadly; I read Science, CACM, IEEE Security
and Privacy,
and I read books (currently Barbara van Schewick’s “Internet Architecture and In- novation,” with Tim Wu’s “The Master Switch” next on my list). I go to confer- ences, and I read papers from the meet- ings I can’t attend. I go to seminars, both in my area and outside of it. But with all this activity, I also make sure that I leave time to do my own work. It’s easy to substitute activity for work, and one must not make that mis- take.
7. In your opinion, what (if any)
are the remaining barriers faced by women in technology? Women are more likely than men to be part of a two-body career situation; that complicates women’s careers. Mean- while in the forty-plus years since the start of the modern women’s movement, the work world has not yet caught up to two-career couples. Whether the absence of tracks for years of part-time work while children are small (or when elderly par-
ents need care), or the lack of work-from- home policies, the lack of flexibility tends to disproportionately affect women. On the positive side, I’ve been told by some younger women that they have had career- developing opportunities thrust at them; when that happens, that’s great—and it’s a change from a generation ago. The fact is, though, when I go to technical meet- ings, whether the W3C/IAB Internet Pri- vacy workshop I recently attended, or the talk I gave at <Company X> a few weeks before, there are few to no women. Why is this?We don’t all self select out. It seems that we still have to prove our- selves more than the men do, still have to show we’re just as smart as everyone else in the room. For many of us, over time that effort simply gets exhausting, and we leave the profession. Society has to do better. There are too many smart women whose skills we’re not using. It is not only the women who suffer; it is also academia and industry who lose the skills of such
talented people. Source: Anita Borg Institute for Women and Technology
www.anitaborg.org
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