[sp332]

I think it's important to increase visibility of women in tech. There is no "us vs them" in this story! The "us vs them" would be "guy techies vs girl non-techies". As soon as a woman is "in tech", she stops reinforcing the status quo.

[cinquemb]

I think it is important that if a women/black man/[insert-group-here] person/anyone is excited to work on things in tech, that they realize that people will look upon them with whatever illogical stigmas they have, and move beyond that. Because there will be people in the t̶e̶c̶h̶ world that are able to see beyond the superficial things and connect with them as a person to work on things they love to do.

At least that's how it has been for me. I can't imagine what it would be like if I stopped every time to take offense to someones irrational beliefs they had about me, and tried to form [insert-group here] to do something about it that has nothing to do with my interest with tinkering.