sarah jeong

I’m infuriated by the idea that female visibility in tech can be fixed with some bandaid Hall of Fame.

Women tech writers and tech-thinkers are regularly excluded from stupid listicles, women coders are erased, diminished, never mentioned.

And honestly, this isn’t just a sexism problem, the vision of a “hacker" as a young single man has hurt tech in many ways.

It has led to an inefficient/unbalanced expectation of working hours. It has led job insecurity for older coders.

Maybe the weirdest effect has been the stereotype that echoes through the CFAA: hackers are young, mischievous men who need to be controlled

Isn’t that a weird one to think about? That we might have less stupid laws if we didn’t accept the male-dominated stereotype of hackers?

Would “anti-hacking statute” have the same connotation if “coding” was just as likely to conjure up a picture of a woman?