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Rails Girls:Not only for GirlsRUBYKAIGI 2014, 19 SEPTEMBER 2014HARUKA IWAO
Who am I?
Haruka Iwao (@Yuryu) Solutions Architect at Red Hat Interests
Distributed Storage Operating Systems
Part 1 - Gender Diversity
Do you know what this graph shows?
60Men Women
Number of Speakers at RubyKaigi 2013
60Men Women
Data from http://rubykaigi.org/2013/speakers
World Population, 2010
3.5B3.4B
Men Womenhttp://www.geohive.com/earth/pop_gender.aspx
Where does this difference come from?
60
RubyKaigi 2013
Men Women
3.5B3.4B
World Pop. 2010
Men Women
Women Speakers Rate
RubyKaigi PyCon JP LinuxCon JP
RubyConf PyCon US LinuxCon NA
0.0%
5.0%
10.0%
15.0%
20.0%
25.0%
30.0%
35.0%
40.0%
0.0%2.0%
5.2%
11.1% 9.9%7.2%6.8%
0.0%
4.7%
N/A
34.7%
9.5%
2013 2014Estimated by names and photos of the speakers
At Tech Companies
https://gigaom.com/2014/08/21/eight-charts-that-put-tech-companies-diversity-stats-into-perspective/
How about students?
http://www.economist.com/blogs/dailychart/2011/09/female-graduation-rates
Two questions arise
Why do women choose other fields than computer science?
Why do we have fewer women engineers compared to graduates?
Why do women choose other fields than computer science?
“Be a good girl”
Girlish and boyish thingy Playing with dolls Railfan (Railway enthusiast) Sewing / Needlework Driving Study / Research
Search with Google Images and you will see
Scientist
Florist
Computer programmer
Housekeeper
CEO
Executive secretary
Video – Always #LikeAGirlhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XjJQBjWYDTs
Gender gap still exists
These search results are from 2014 not from the 20th century
The gap comes from our culture We need to change, respecting
our culture
Why do we have fewer women engineers compared to graduates?
Question
Do you take into account candidates’ gender when deciding hire or no hire?
Do you ask candidates to submit resume with their gender written?
JIS Resume formatJIS = Japan Industrial
Standard
JIS resume requires…
Birthday(YYMMDD), Age Gender(M/F)
Photo
JIS resume requires more…
Number of dependent family members
Martial status(Married / Not married)
Does your spouse need to be covered by your health
plan / pension / etc? (in other words, does your
spouse work fulltime?)
Resume and gender
Most Japanese companies use the JIS resume format collecting gender, martial status, etc
Web entry forms, recruiting agency referring papers also require gender
Why? Because they use such information Google “ 女性 面接 質問”
At RubyKaigi 2013
http://peterevjan.com/posts/rubykaigi-2013-great-conference-but-i-probably-wouldnt-go-next-year-if-i-was-a-woman/
http://blog.rubykaigi.org/post/52064582345/we-apologize
So what can we do?
At work
Ask candidates not to write gender Or ask HR to hide it
Consider interview questions Respect everyone as individual
professionals
Make our community fair
No discriminations or harassments We attend conferences because
It is interesting and fun Proposal is accepted We want to learn
Not because Someone is beautiful or kawaii
Join local activities
Rails Girls is looking for Sponsors Volunteers(coaches, organizers, staff) Participants
Encourage your colleague or children to join
Contact me or any staff!
Activities to change the situation
Part 2 - Rails Girls
What is Rails Girls?
A Rails tutorial for women “Our aim is to give tools and a
community for women to understand technology and to build their ideas.”
Founded by Linda Liukas and Karri Saarinen
History
November 2011 The first Rails Girls in Helsinki,
Finland September 2012
The first Rails Girls in Tokyo, Japan Now
150+ cities, 220+ events worldwide
Rails Girls Curriculum
Guide to install Rails Build your first app Push your app to GitHub Put your app online Apply a modern design with
Bootstrap Add Authentication with Devise
Rails Girls Cirriculum (2)
Add profile pics with Gravatar Test your application with RSpec CD with Travis More advanced topics available! See http://guides.railsgirls.com/
Rails Girls in Japan
Held in Tokyo, Kyoto, Sapporo, Nara, Osaka, Nagoya and Matsue
Staffed with volunteers Sponsored by various companies
Rails Girls Youth
Rails Girls “Youth” in Krakow, Poland
Focuses on teenagers before making important decisions
http://blog.railsgirls.com/post/85521955069/9-surprises-of-rails-girls-youth-krakow
Rails Girls and Me
My First Rails Girls
Rails Girls Tokyo 2nd - March 2013 Participated as a “Girl”
http://www.atmarkit.co.jp/ait/articles/1303/04/news119.html
My Second Rails Girls
Rails Girls Tokyo 3rd - October 2013 Participated as a “Coach”
http://blog.railsgirls.jp/post/65614128686/railsgirls-tokyo-3rd
“”
In learning you will teach, and in teaching you will learn.
PHIL COLLINS
At RubyKaigi 2014
I’m here
It’s your turn now
Thank you!