“At one point during the ‘Women in Agile’ presentation, a man sat down to join the mostly female audience. One of the presenters thanked him for participating. He replied, ‘Don’t thank me – I have a daughter!’”

What are you seeing in your organization relating to women’s experience in the workplace? How are you involved in the growing conversation?

Highlights

00:00:00
Subject of “Women in Agile” still a hot topic at Agile 2014 Conference in Orlando.
00:03:20
“…this is the first year that the Agile Alliance has been very overt about their anti-harassment policy…”
00:04:35
Agile conferences have a much higher proportion of women attending than any other kind of technical conference.
00:07:03
It’s time to bring back conversations about “Gender Intelligence” and the often differing working styles between men and women.
00:09:50
Attendees are more open and feel safer about having these kinds of conversations at Agile conferences.
00:12:50
It is a courageous thing for a young woman to decide to stand out in the technical world due to very real danger of death threats, rape threats, and so on.
00:17:20
The sense of male entitlement, and the belief that “I got to where I am because I’m so smart.”

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