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#womenintech — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #womenintech, aggregated by home.social.
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Your MC for the last day of PyCon Africa 2026 in Albert Hall: Sumaiya Nalukwago 🎤🐍 Programs lead for PyCon Africa, PyCon Uganda organizer since 2023, Women Techmakers Ambassador and GDG Cloud Community Lead.
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The women of PyLadies Uganda, together at PyCon Africa 2026.
PyLadies creates space for women to learn, build and lead in Python and tech. Seeing this many of them in one room in Kampala is a reminder that the African tech community gets stronger when more women are part of it, on stage and behind the scenes.
Thank you to every woman who showed up, shared her work and supported the sisters around her.
#PyConAfrica2026 #PyLadies #WomenInTech #Python #AfricanTech
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DATE: October 10, 2026 at 07:00AM
SOURCE: PSYPOST.ORG** Research quality varies widely from fantastic to small exploratory studies. Please check research methods when conclusions are very important to you. **
-------------------------------------------------TITLE: High cognitive ability in women predicts workplace victimization
URL: https://www.psypost.org/highly-competent-women-face-hidden-social-penalties-in-the-workplace/
Women who score high on cognitive ability tests face unique social penalties in the workplace, including heightened hostility and a lack of support from their colleagues. Men with similarly high cognitive scores do not experience these same social consequences, and in some cases, they actually receive better treatment from their peers. These observations come from a recent paper published in the Journal of Applied Psychology.
In the workplace, gender continues to shape how people are evaluated and treated by their peers. According to social role theory, society holds unwritten rules about how men and women should behave. Women are traditionally expected to exhibit communal traits. Communality involves being helpful, kind, and attentive to the needs of others. Men are typically expected to display agentic traits. Agency involves being decisive, independent, competitive, and highly capable.
When individuals violate these unwritten expectations, they often face social disapproval. Past research has established that women who show dominance, by acting forcefully or aggressively, frequently face professional penalties. Yet newer studies have suggested that displaying competence, such as high intelligence, might benefit women when they are evaluated for leadership roles.
A team of researchers led by Nitya Chawla at the University of Minnesota wanted to know if this benefit extended to daily interactions with team members. They suspected that displaying high cognitive ability might actually backfire for women in everyday team settings. Cognitive ability generally refers to a person’s capacity to learn, reason, solve problems, and comprehend complex ideas.
To investigate this, Chawla and her colleagues relied on a psychological concept known as the implied communality deficit. This concept suggests that when women display high competence, their peers unconsciously assume they lack communal traits. In other words, peers might assume a highly intelligent woman is not just less warm, but actively cold or hostile. The research team suspected this dynamic would lead to fewer instances of colleagues helping out and more instances of colleagues actively victimizing the highly competent woman.
To test these ideas, the researchers conducted two distinct investigations. The first study tracked 432 undergraduate business students at a public university in the United States. The students were divided into small teams to complete a semester-long consulting project for local organizations.
About four weeks into the semester, the students took the Wonderlic test, a standard assessment used to measure general mental ability. Seven weeks later, the participants evaluated their teammates, rating the extent to which each peer exhibited hostility or anger. A few weeks after that, the students reported how often they received help from their teammates and how often they experienced subtle forms of victimization, such as teammates withholding information.
The results showed a distinct difference in how cognitive ability affected social dynamics for men and women. For women, higher cognitive ability was linked to higher ratings of interpersonal hostility from their teammates. Because these women were perceived as more hostile, they subsequently reported experiencing more victimization.
These same women also received less help from their peers. Teammates were less likely to assist them with tasks or offer emotional support. For the men in the study, higher cognitive scores did not predict any increase in perceived hostility or changes in the amount of help or victimization they received.
For their second study, the researchers moved from a university setting to a corporate environment. They recruited 394 full-time employees working in small teams at a financial company in China. The company requires all job candidates to take a cognitive ability test during the hiring process, which provided the researchers with objective intelligence scores for each participant.
The employees completed an initial survey where they rated each of their team members on both interpersonal hostility and communality. About three weeks later, the employees completed a second survey reporting how often they were victimized by their team members and how much help they received. By separating the surveys by several weeks, the researchers aimed to capture how initial perceptions translated into workplace behaviors over time.
The findings mirrored the results of the student study while providing additional detail. Women with higher cognitive ability scores were once again viewed as more hostile by their colleagues. They were also rated as less communal than their peers.
These negative perceptions predicted worse treatment for the women. They faced more victimization and received less task-related and personal help from their colleagues. The highly competent women essentially experienced a double bind, being viewed as lacking warmth while simultaneously projecting hostility.
The men in the corporate sample experienced a completely different reality. For them, higher cognitive ability was linked to lower ratings of hostility from their peers. Because they were seen as less hostile, these men experienced less victimization and actually received more help from their teammates.
While the findings present a consistent pattern across two different cultures, the studies relied on moderate sample sizes. Additionally, the university students and the corporate employees represent highly specific environments where cognitive ability is already heavily screened. In the general population, the range of intelligence scores would be much wider, which could alter the strength of these associations.
The researchers also measured victimization and help through self-reported surveys. While peer perceptions were gathered from the teammates themselves, the actual experiences of mistreatment or support were filtered through the perspective of the individual. Future studies could use independent observations to verify how often highly competent women are actually targeted or ignored in group settings.
Finally, these findings do not account for racial or cultural intersections within a single environment. Stereotypes regarding competence and warmth differ across racial groups. Future research could explore whether women of different backgrounds experience this competence penalty differently within the same workplace.
The study, “Understanding the Intersection of Gender and Cognitive Ability on Interpersonal Outcomes: A Multistudy Investigation,” was authored by Nitya Chawla, Trevor M. Spoelma, Seo-Hyun Kwon, Allison S. Gabriel, Aleksander P. J. Ellis, and Wen Wu.
URL: https://www.psypost.org/highly-competent-women-face-hidden-social-penalties-in-the-workplace/
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#psychology #counseling #socialwork #psychotherapy @psychotherapist @psychotherapists @psychology @socialpsych @socialwork @psychiatry #mentalhealth #psychiatry #healthcare #depression #psychotherapist #WomenInTech #CognitiveAbility #WorkplaceBias #GenderRoles #InterpersonalDynamics #HostilityAtWork #CommunalityDeficit #WomenLeadership #WorkplaceVictimization #TeamDynamics
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💡 The ‘My Media’ section on our #TIB_AVPortal makes it easy to curate personalised content:
⭐ Once you’ve logged in, you can use the star icon (with a red border) to mark videos as favourites & add them to playlists - to flexibly organise, sort, keep track of and, if you wish, share them. This also makes it easy to spot relatively new series & publishers!
👀 Which gems have you already discovered in our sea of #sciencevideos?
#FeatureFriday #VideoRecommendations #WomenInScience #WomenInTech
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Day 2 of PyCon Africa 2026 🤍
A mum with her baby in one arm and the mic in the other, asking questions and staying curious through the day. She didn’t have to choose between learning and parenting, and that’s the kind of room we want to build.
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https://www.europesays.com/unitedstates/26370/ Nicola Forrest anchors Antler’s $70 million 3rd fund in $30m push for women founders #Antler #investment #News #Startups #VentureCapital #VentureCapital&Startups #WomenInTech
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💡 Der Bereich „Meine Medien“ bei uns im #TIB_AVPortal macht individuelle Contentkuratierung einfach:
⭐ Über den rot umrandeten Stern favorisierte und in Playlists zugeordnete Videos, lassen sich mit Login hier flexibel zusammenstellen, sortieren, beobachten und optional teilen. Relativ neu sind so auch Serien und Herausgeber merkbar!
👀 Welche Perlen aus dem Meer von #Wissenschaftsvideos habt ihr bei uns bereits entdeckt?
#FeatureFreitag #Videoempfehlungen #WomenInScience #WomenInTech
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Margaret Hamilton ist am 30. September im Alter von 90 Jahren gestorben.
Sie hat den Begriff „Software Engineering“ geprägt, zu einer Zeit, in der Software noch nicht als richtige Ingenieursarbeit galt. Ihr Team am MIT schrieb die Flugsoftware für Apollo und brachte Menschen auf den Mond.
Wir reden gerade viel darüber, wie sich unsere Jobs verändern. Heute sagen wir erst mal: Danke, Margaret.
#MargaretHamilton #SoftwareEngineering #Apollo11 #WomenInTech
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Margaret Hamilton, the programmer who saved Apollo 11 with code that still makes modern engineers weep quietly into their energy drinks.
#Apollo11 #SoftwareEngineering #MargretHamilton #SpaceHistory #WomenInTech
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Margaret Hamilton credited with naming the discipline of "software engineering", the director of the Division that developed the on-board flight software for NASA's Apollo Guidance Computer for the Apollo program, (and so so much more), passed away on Sebtemper 30th 2026 at age 90.What an incredible woman, and such a contribution to the field of computer science.
#tech #softwareengineering #womenintech #MargaretHamilton #WomenInSTEM #NASAHistory
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While rat-holing on some history of man pages, I learned about Lorinda Cherry today. She was one of the members of the original Unix lab.
Lots of influential work on text analysis & formatting. Created early spell-checker, typo, and calculator processor, bc.
Cool stuff.
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🎤 Looking forward to the talk "Keeping data private in real-time pipelines" by Olena Kutsenko ✨
at #swisspythonsummit in 2.5 weeks!Check out the schedule and get your ticket 👇
https://www.python-summit.ch/program/Don't forget to register for the PyLadies lunch 🤗
#python #pyladies #conference #datascience #womenintech #genderminoritiesintech #streamingdata -
Three conferences, three WNB.rb meetups, one amazing community. 💜
Want to make your own happen? This October, WNB.rb will cover **one drink per person** at self-organized in-person mini-meets!
Find your regional channel in Discord, make some plans, and meet up IRL. 🍻
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👩💼 Fei-Fei Li, the researcher behind ImageNet, will report to AMD CEO Lisa Su and help shape the chips for physical AI. Women own 32% of the world's small firms. Why that reporting line matters to them 👉
https://signaldigital.net/2026/10/03/two-women-an-8-2-billion-world-and-a-35-showroom/
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"Younger workers often overlooked for senior roles due to historical issues and fears they’ll get pregnant, says survey"
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"Many people I meet ask me a variant of the question 'I understand we want more women in technology, but why?' It’s a great question, and not at all something we should be offended by. Often men are afraid to ask questions like this for fear there will be backlash, and I think that fear can lead to stifling an important conversation."
#SaraJChipps, 2012, quoted by @codinghorror in 2014
https://blog.codinghorror.com/what-can-men-do/
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TECHnicalBeep Maps (European Ecosystem Maps) is live.
Startups, Events, VCs, and Women in Tech from Dublin to Sofia, with new entries added every week. Free to browse, no sign-up.
Map: 🔗 https://technicalbeep.com/maps/
Add yourself: 🔗 https://technicalbeep.com/submit
Why we built it: 🔗 https://technicalbeep.com/technicalbeep-maps-europe-startup-ecosystem/#technicalbeep #ideasphere #WomeninTech #Startups #TechEvents #VCs
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J'ai commis une sorte de billet d'humeur autour du Glue Work, un concept qui, si vous ne le connaissez pas, établi que le travail invisible fait pour que les équipes tech fonctionnent au mieux est souvent pris en charge par les femmes. Et évidemment jamais utile pour obtenir une promotion, car jamais réellement reconnu.
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October is for meeting IRL! 💜
This October, WNB.rb is helping members connect in person through self-organized mini-meets.
Grab a drink with other WNB folks in your area — WNB.rb will cover one drink per person. 🍻☕
Join us on Discord to learn more: wnb-rb.dev
#WNBdotrb #RubyLang #RubyCommunity #WomenWhoCode #WomenInTech #NonbinaryCoders
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My SEC-T talk "Veilid: The Private Internet we were all Promised" is up on YouTube! Please take a chance to watch and support it because this message about the future of privacy needs to be amplified 🌎💫
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🎤 Looking forward to the talk "Did we break up? Auditing Instagram data with Python" by Almudena Barreiro Carrillo ✨
at #swisspythonsummit in 3.5 weeks!Check out the schedule and get your ticket 👇
https://www.python-summit.ch/program/Don't forget to register for the PyLadies lunch 🤗
#python #pyladies #conference #datascience #womenintech #genderminoritiesintech #responsibleai -
Spoke at SEC-T in Stockholm for the first time ever this month! Turns out I'm the youngest speaker they've ever had 😮💫 Let's make Veilid global 💜🌎
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Viele #Solar Vereine - wir auch - zeigen Männer beim Basteln.
Wahrscheinlich, weil Männeranteil bei Workshops oft überwiegt.
Das stört uns und wir haben deshalb eine Seite mit Bildern unter CC BY-NC-SA Lizenz angelegt, auf der Frauen bei Solar Workshops zu sehen sind!
https://balkon.solar/news/2026/09/23/frauen-bei-steckersolar-workshops/
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There’s always something happening at WNB.rb! 💜
All month long, you can connect with an amazing community, learn together, sharpen your skills, and support your career. Come hang out!
#WNB #WNBrb #Ruby #RubyOnRails #Rails #WomenInTech #NonbinaryInTech #TechCommunity #CareerDevelopment #SoftwareEngineering #Programming
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🎤 Looking forward to the talk "Too Complicated to Model? Missing Female Athletes Data" by Hilal Işık from PyLadies Berlin 🤓🏃♀️✨ at #swisspythonsummit
Check out the schedule and get your ticket 👇
https://www.python-summit.ch/program/Don't forget to register for the PyLadies lunch 🤗
#python #pyladies #conference #datascience #womenintech #genderminoritiesintech #datamodeling #Femaleathletes
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We Surveyed 634 Women Who Work in Tech. They Let Loose
https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://www.wired.com/story/women-in-tech-survey/
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🗓️ Only one month to go until #swisspythonsummit 2026 🙌 two days of conference talks and community, with a dedicated data science day and two #pyladies lunches 🍝
Check out the schedule and get your ticket 👇
https://www.python-summit.ch/program/Don't forget to register for the PyLadies lunch 🤗
#python #conference #datascience #womenintech #genderminoritiesintech
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RE: https://mastodon.social/@gusseting/117268727309022737
Rails Girls was never about DEI. It was about Pretending To Care. They got their name from The Spice Girls because they thought it was cute and empowering. The Spice Girls were the capitalist backlash against Riot Grrl. Rails Girls Summer Of Code deserves to be burnt to the ground.
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👩🦰 💻 👱♀️Gestern fiel der Startschuss für unseren alljährlichen HackHERthon an unserem Berliner Standort. In realistischen Aufgaben aus Bereichen wie Forensik, Pentesting und Kryptografie konnten die Teilnehmerinnen in einer Capture the Flag Challenge bereits vorhandenes Wissen testen und neue Herausforderungen gemeinsam lösen. Heute und morgen ging es mit einem klassischen Hackathon weiter, bei dem in Kleingruppen IoT-Herausforderungen bearbeitet werden.
Dabei geht es um weit mehr als nur um technische Challenges. Mit unserem HackHERthon-Event möchten wir Frauen für IT-Sicherheit begeistern, den Austausch miteinander fördern und einen Raum schaffen, in dem sie unabhängig von bisherigen Erfahrungslevel ihre Fähigkeiten und Kenntnisse gemeinsam ausprobieren und weiterentwickeln können.
Einige Teilnehmerinnen nahmen eine längere Anreise auf sich. Ihr Teamwork und ihre Begeisterung bestätigen uns darin, solche Räume weiterhin zu schaffen.🫶 Vielen Dank an alle Kolleginnen und Kollegen, die den HackHERthon möglich gemacht haben!
Informationen zum nächsten Event und zu offenen Positionen finden Sie auf unserer Karriereseite 🚀 https://karriere.hisolutions.com/
