Overview
- Provides options to address challenging and career stalemating situations that are experienced by women as they are entering, achieving competency, and advancing in their careers
- Takes a grass roots and “pay it forward” approach providing women with not only success, but the desire and skill to mentor and sponsor other women in the future
- Incorporates real use cases, experiences, and advice from women in the technical world, providing steps toward success that is self-sustaining, shareable, and promotable
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About this book
In Crushing the IT Gender Bias, author Kellyn Pot’Vin-Gorman applies her two decades of experience in tech to these meaningful questions, plus many more. As a mentor and sponsor of women in the database and development communities, Pot’Vin-Gorman uses experience, visualizations of hard data, and industry interviews to describe the many challenges that women face in STEM. She then shows you how to inoculate against them. Small, positive changes like these are similar to a vaccine: they build individual immunity and thus create herd immunity to protect the most vulnerable. This shift is accomplished through increased representation of—and direct exposure to—successful role models in the industry.
You’ll get practical advice related to hiring practices, salary negotiations, and barriers to collaboration. After witnessing multiple female peers depart the tech world, Pot’Vin-Gorman has written Crushing the IT Gender Bias to make her voice heard and to start this necessary conversation productively so that women can thrive. Additionally, this book is for male professionals who desire to grow in their understanding and eliminate bias in their environments.
Do not be content with mere survival. Read this book, practice the techniques, and, most importantly, learn how to pay it forward. By arming yourself with knowledge and facing bias head-on, you can be the meaningful change that you want to see in the tech industry.
Who This Book Is For
Women in any area of technology with a desire to make and lead positive change by eliminating conscious and unconscious bias along with strategically confronting the many issues facing women in a field dominated by cultural bias. The book appeals to those just starting a career through to seasoned professionals, and even to those entering the management tier. This book also welcomes men with a desire to grow in their understanding and eliminate bias in the world around them.
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Book Title: Crushing the IT Gender Bias
Book Subtitle: Thriving as a Woman in Technology
Authors: Kellyn Pot’Vin-Gorman
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-4415-9
Publisher: Apress Berkeley, CA
eBook Packages: Professional and Applied Computing, Apress Access Books, Professional and Applied Computing (R0)
Copyright Information: Kellyn Pot'Vin-Gorman 2019
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-4842-4414-2Published: 24 April 2019
eBook ISBN: 978-1-4842-4415-9Published: 24 April 2019
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XII, 177
Number of Illustrations: 20 b/w illustrations
Topics: Database Management, Culture and Gender, Business and Management, general