Cracking the Bro Code
Cracking the Bro Code
English | 2024 | ISBN: 0262547058 | 207 Pages | PDF (True) | 1.5 MB
English | 2024 | ISBN: 0262547058 | 207 Pages | PDF (True) | 1.5 MB
Cracking the Bro Code is a bold ethnographic study of sexism and racism in contemporary computing cultures theorized through the analytical frame of the "Bro code." Drawing from feminist anthropology and STS, Coleen Carrigan shares in this book the direct experiences of women, nonbinary individuals, and people of color, including her own experiences in tech, to show that computing has a serious cultural problem. From senior leaders in the field to undergraduates in their first year of college, participants consistently report how sexism and harassment manifest themselves in computing via values, norms, behaviors, evaluations, and policies. While other STEM fields are making strides in recruiting, retaining, and respecting women workers, computing fails year after year to do so.