How hackathons can become more female-friendly

February 17, 2014

It's well known that women working in technology are a relatively rare breed but there's one area of the tech world where they seem to be particularly scarce: at hackathons. While I couldn't find any real statistics on the average male/female breakdown at hackathons, anecdotally at least, hackathons appear to be an almost purely male pursuit. But why do many of the few female programmers there are seem to stay away from this common developer activity? And what can be done to get more women to attend hackathons? A recent thread on Quora sheds some light why women don't go to hackathons. Based on the responses, there seemed to be a couple of common reasons. To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here

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