What chess taught me about the differences between men and women

in any given tournament field, the percentage of women participants consistently hovers around three), but for the most part, it’s the bros in suits who are here to play. The evening gowns and décolletés are here to watch and socialize.

“One of the things I’ve learned about data and the data we collect is we think data is objective. Data is actually sexist. We don’t actually know why women have dropped out of computer science, but there’s some theories looking at the data we do have.… When I played home video games, it was Pong, Pac-Man. Then, with the advent of computers, they we

Centuries of women’s exclusion from political, public, and professional life have had many effects. Some of those effects were external: legislation, formal policies, pay disparities, lack of legal protections, and the denial of women’s basic rights. But inequality of men and women has also left internal effects in us. Over generations, it shaped h

At the time I was in college, the late 1980s, about 37 percent of college undergrads in computer science were women. We were on our way up, we thought, like in law and medicine. That has since dropped to about 17 or 18 percent. Now it’s on a slight uptick to 19 percent. One of the things I’ve learned about data and the data we collect is we think d