In reply to https://twitter.com/CaseySoftware/status/288324803268579328
We can work at it on all levels. Raise our male kids to see women as equal, get other parents to do the same. Help out in school. Support STEM in school etc.
For JS, we are involved with http://js.opentechschool.org to get newbies going (~50/50 ratio). We are very open and encouraging at @BerlinJS (with varying success, but it is getting better) and we help setting examples at the high end with JSConf EU, who’s CFP has been copied to >10 conferences so far that have used it with success.
There is no one thing is better or we shouldn’t do one because another is better. We need to stop the fucking talking about the effectiveness of any one thing and just pick and do any one of them and hten as much as you can handle and be supportive of others doing the other stuff.
Throwing metaphorical stones at anyone who is doing anything good because you think they should do sometjhing else is the worst thing you can do.