Feminism in PL

You might be wondering: "what does programming language design have to do with feminism?"

But trust me, the following video and the accompanying paper [1] provide a really accessible overview of the kinds of structural problems that affect the PL design and research community today. Surprisingly (or not surprisingly), I also suffer due to some of those problems even as a male phd student working in the field.

Please click on the image to view the video on YouTube.

[1]: Felienne Hermans and Ari Schlesinger. 2024. A Case for Feminism in Programming Language Design. In Proceedings of the 2024 ACM SIGPLAN International Symposium on New Ideas, New Paradigms, and Reflections on Programming and Software (Onward! '24). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, 205–222. https://doi.org/10.1145/3689492.3689809