Progress with PayGap.ie
I’ve made some great connections in the last few months with my PayGap.ie portal, and wanted to share some of what I’ve been doing. I visited the Geary Institute of Public Policy to speak at one of their lunchtime seminars…
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New Gender Pay Gap Portal
If you’ve been on my site before, chances are you’ve seen the link in the menu to the 2022 gender pay gap database. When I set up this page on my website last year, I had to work around a…
IWD 2022 Winners & Losers
International Women’s Day is upon us once again! It seems like only yesterday that I was setting up this blog to discuss some of my experiences as a woman in tech, but here we are again. I thought I’d take…
Lots of things make you angry
Picture the scene: a typical lunch room in an office. There’s people from all teams gathered around tables, people are joining in and out of conversations as they finish their lunch or as the topic changes. A coworker mentions that…
Women just don’t ask for raises and promotions
In one of my jobs, I found myself pretty unhappy with my situation. Some of the other stories I’ve already shared had happened, I was feeling underappreciated, and passed over for things in favour for some of my male colleagues.…
I’m still speaking
A theme of International Women’s Day 2021 is “choose to challenge”. They want to encourage people to challenge biases where they see them, to call it out. In my career, I haven’t experienced very many instances where someone called out…
What about the boys though?
Something I was quite proud of at one time in my career is an initiative I was involved in to encourage young girls to stay in science and technology. It was based on a program that had been run in…
That’s just how it worked out
There are often reshuffling of teams when you work in tech. Projects come and go, budget changes, and you may find yourself with a new scrum master, team mate, or manager without very much say in the matter. I had…
You can’t see what you can’t be
I graduated in 2007, and went straight into work. Since then I have worked as a coder at several companies, been promoted a few times, worked at different levels, and even transitioned into product management. My current manager is the…
A bit more experience
At one stage, a company I worked for had a major transition of version control versions, and internal tooling. A number of teams had to be trained in Git (a version control tool), and also an internal UI development framework.…