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!