Episode 025: MotherCoders with Tina Lee




Greater Than Code show

Summary: <p style="text-align: center;"><b>Panelists: </b></p> <p style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://twitter.com/coralineada"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Coraline Ada Ehmke</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> | </span><a href="https://twitter.com/ReinH"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Rein Henrichs</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> | </span><a href="http://twitter.com/therubyrep"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Mandy Moore</span></a></p> <p style="text-align: center;"><b>Guest Starring:</b></p> <p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Tina Lee: </span><a href="https://twitter.com/mstinalee"><span style="font-weight: 400;">@mstinalee</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> | </span><a href="http://www.mothercoders.org/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">MotherCoders</span></a></p> <p style="text-align: center;"><b>Show Notes:</b></p> <p><b>00:16 </b><span style="font-weight: 400;">– Welcome to “Not Your Mother’s Podcast!” …we mean, “Greater Than Code!”</span></p> <p><b>00:55</b><span style="font-weight: 400;"> – Origin Story and Getting Involved in Coding</span></p> <p><b>03:17</b><span style="font-weight: 400;"> – Programming Perspectives From People of Different Backgrounds; Teaching Adults vs Children </span></p> <p><b>08:19 </b><span style="font-weight: 400;">– Work/Life Balance</span></p> <p><b>11:32 </b><span style="font-weight: 400;">– Changing Culture Around Gender Roles and Caregiving</span></p> <p style="text-align: center;"><b><i>“Culture is like water in that it flows from the top down.”</i></b></p> <p style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.mtv.com/news/2976598/nev-schulman-gender-stereotypes-parenting-catfish-laura-perlongo-cleo/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Nev Schulman Wants to Erase Gender Stereotypes for Parents</span></a></p> <p><b>18:18 </b><span style="font-weight: 400;">– The </span><a href="http://www.mothercoders.org/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">MotherCoders</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> Organization</span></p> <p style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://medium.com/@halhen/what-to-expect-when-youre-done-expecting-25fb0c00393"><span style="font-weight: 400;">What to expect when you’re done expecting</span></a> <span style="font-weight: 400;">(Medium Article)  </span></p> <p><b>24:27 </b><span style="font-weight: 400;">– Teaching Frontend Development and The Stereotype that Women are Better at Frontend than Backend Work</span></p> <p style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2017/mar/14/tech-women-code-workshops-developer-jobs"><span style="font-weight: 400;">We can teach women to code, but that just creates another problem</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> (Guardian Article) </span></p> <p><b>30:00 </b><span style="font-weight: 400;">– Silicon Valley Elitism, Sexism, and Defining Cultural Norms; “The Ideal Worker”</span></p> <p style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J6ASw9OpvMg"><span style="font-weight: 400;">The Motherhood Penalty</span></a></p> <p><b>35:38 </b><span style="font-weight: 400;">– Why do we not have many of women CEOs?</span></p> <p><b>37:42 </b><span style="font-weight: 400;">– Tactical Help for Cultural Changes</span></p> <p style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.diigo.com/r?from=library&amp;u=mstinalee"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Stats on Millennial Women Becoming Moms</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">  </span></p> <p style="text-align: center;"><b>Support us via </b><a href="https://www.patreon.com/greaterthancode"><b>Patreon</b></a><b>!<br> </b><b>Get instant access to our Slack Channel!<br> </b><b>Thank you </b><a href="https://twitter.com/nkantar"><b>Nik Kantar</b></a><b>!</b></p> <p style="text-align: center;"><b>Reflections:</b></p> <p><b>Mandy: </b><a href="http://www.mothercoders.org/give"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Donate to MotherCoders</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> and/or support t</span></p>