📚 Book Club: Invisible Women
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📚 Book Club: Invisible Women
We are really excited to launch a new event series: the WWCode Portland monthly Book Club!!! The first book we plan to read is "Invisible Women - Data Bias in a World Designed for Men" by Caroline Criado Perez.
We are starting this Book Club as a way to:
- read, learn, and discuss books together
- contribute to our Portland community by purchasing these books locally
As such, we encourage you to can purchase a copy of the book from Powells: https://www.powells.com/book/invisible-women-data-bias-in-a-world-designed-for-men-9781419729072
If you are a student, unemployed, under-employed, or need assistance to purchase this book, we will purchase it for anyone who fills out the form before June 14.
⏰ Agenda
5:15 - Attendees may join waiting room
5:30 - Icebreakers & Introductions
5:45 - General Discussion about Invisible Women
6:00 - Breakout Rooms session #1
6:45 - Breakout Rooms session #2
7:30 - Closing Remarks
☎️ We will send out the link to a Zoom invite prior to the event.
- The Cost of Unpaid Labor - Care work, which is primarily done by women around the world, is essential to our society and our lives. And yet that work is largely unrecognized and undervalued.
- The Motherhood Tax - When they become mothers, women often have to put their careers on hold, either by quitting their jobs or cutting down their hours. How can the workforce become more accommodating for mothers?
- Medical Disparities - The chapters in “Part IV: Going to the Doctor” outlined how the medical establishment is failing women, by testing out medication on primarily male subjects to dismissing women’s pain. How can we address this?
- What quotes, studies, or parts of the book resonated the most with you? What did you relate to the most? Why?
Join us on our Slack in the #book-club channel to start discussing the book.
👩🏻 Event Co-Hosts
Caterina Paun (she/her) is the Senior Director and co-founder of WWCode Portland. She works as a Senior Instructor in the Computer Science Department at Portland State University, where she teaches classes on web and voice development. She has participated in several book clubs and she is excited to co-host this event series for the WWCode community.
Tanya Barham (she/her) is the founder of Community Energy Labs. She is a long-time cleantech enthusiast and practitioner having worked in the energy and utilities industry since 2000. Tanya is the mother of a very fun ten year old daughter and two house rabbits. She is excited to meet more women in tech and to support one another as we pursue growth in our lives and careers.
👩🏽💻 About Women Who Code
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🔷 Code of Conduct
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