Ada's Sisters Podcast

If you haven't seen the video where men read horrible tweetssentto female sportscasters, we're going to tell you all about it.Andthen we'll pull out our woman cards. Never heard of them?Neitherhave we. But Trump tells us it's a sneaky thing we've hadaccess tofor generations and have used to become the strongestforce in theworld. If you believe that load of cow paddies, thenyou should readsome of Ross Putman's tweets. He's a Hollywoodproducer who postslines from some of the more ridiculouslygendered scripts he getshanded.Thankfully, there is some good news from the internets,namelyEtsy's efforts to balance out their gender diversity.And the BEST news on the internet this week has to be thePrincessAwesome clothing line for little girls who love dresseswith carsand math stamped all over them.

This has been one of those weeks where you can learn a lot about how and why things go Viral. Like how that 11s video of Kim Kardashian disappointing Prince on-stage is on everyone's Facebook wall. Or how a 1-hour video message about infidelity can dominate the twitter-sphere. Or how a Winnipeg mom's choice to let her kids play in her backyard can get social services called in (and the set the internet on fire). Here's hoping The Freelancers Union's LONGEST invoice project goes viral - to bring attention to a huge problem facing freelancers. And also that this brilliant video from Argentinian charity MACMA changes some of the gender-discriminating rules around nipples.

You know what happens when gamers are arbitrarily assigned female characters? Well, they certainly didn't thank the makers of RUST who did just that. An endeavour that is getting a lot of support is The Guardian's subsite dedicated to confronting cyber-bullying called ‘THE WEB WE WANT.’And if you want an example of why such a site is neccessary, we'll tell you about a PEI reporter who got taken to task on social media for wearing red lipstick. No, seriously. And we've got two new tooltips specific to podcasts this week - Google Play, which has just introduced Podcasts to its directory and Clammr, which we are experimenting with to do 24s promos.

First, we talk about The GAP ad that’s got people all aflutter on social media and then we look at the dismal stats around speaker diversity at Tech-related events in Toronto.On the Uber-side, we are getting excited for this new app called Chariot for Women (though we're not loving the name).We peek into the SCANDAL (ha ha!) around Kerry Washington’s unrecognizable ADWEEK cover and how can we not talk about the REDDIT thread that called women "The Hitlers of Sex.” No, seriously.

We ruminate on whether there really is a problem with technology designed primarily by men for men, and the American Medical Association study that says yes. Then we turn to gender-based emojis and a body positive underwear campaign for men.Speaking of color, our tooltip of the week is a new app that hides an applicant’s details to eliminate unconscious bias in hiring.And we have some thoughts about the #UnFairandLovely hashtag that’s trending on Instagram and the new UberPitch app.

We’re not obsessed with Barbies, but there’s a matching DAD BOD Ken doll now! We promise to spend less time talking about silicon equality and more talking about real human equality - namely about the personal attacks on Hilary Clinton and how that is effecting women at large. SXSW finally followed through on their panel discussions about Gamergate and online harassment but the results were a little disheartening. Two Toronto teens won Women of Distinction Awards for their efforts in battling sexual harrasment and Marvel has launched a program for girl scientists we want to tell you all about.

Winnipeg's Amy Tuckett-McGimpsey and Allison Ferry attack sexist dress codes because at some Canadian restaurants, you are still required to dress like you're going to the club if you're a waitress. We talk about a teacher who was forced to resign because of her naked selfie and the quick end to Land's End's Legends program.Did you know that women had trouble with rectangles? Neither did we, but a new phone start-up is designing circular phones for confused females we have never met.Speaking of circular problems, RBS is experimenting with an AI customer service pilot project that really could do no worse than what they have now.Wikipedia just noticed that a lot of their millions of pages have never felt the touch of a woman, much like many of the editors of Wikipedia.

This is a special episode we recorded on Tuesday, March 8th with guest Gini Dietrich @ginidietrich and surprise guest Bob LeDrew @bobledrew (we had planned to have Elan Morgan @schmutzie join us too but the technology failed her).

Chris Rock's monologue for the 80th Academy Awards was all about the #WhiteOscars hashtag, and we loved it. And one solution Hollywood might want to look into is the Rent-a-Minority website, made for employers who "are racist, but don't want to look racist."  Ok, it's a satirical website, but we think it makes an interesting statement. Speaking of interesting statements, Toronto's own Maayan Ziv has created an app that crowdsources accessible spots in different cities -- it's called ACCESS NOW. And another app that has our attention is the PartPic which is like Shazam for parts you might need. Just take a picture and it identifies the part and helps you find a replacement.    

Podcamp Toronto was a blast as always, and our panel on Women in Podcasting generated some awesome discussion — we grabbed a few members of the audience for some quick audio clips. The University of Waterloo is offering some free computer science courses that we think people should be paying attention to. The Crunchies welcomed some diverse members of the Slack team to accept the fastest-rising start-up award, and a recent report seems to indicate that in blind taste tests, the code written by women outshines similar code written by men. And Hijarbie Barbie is showing some style on Instagram.

This is a special episode we recorded on Monday, Feb 15th with guests Whitney Hoffman and Alexandra Samuel. 

We will be at Podcamp Toronto, so register (it’s free) and upvote our panel please! Steamlabs is running a hackathon we can (and will) get behind — to create your own Rey doll ala Star Wars: The Force Awakens. What a great way to take a negative (Hasbro excluding Rey from their action figure set for the movie) and whip up a positive! We’re interested in Twitter’s crackdown on accounts that support or talk about terrorism, and the 125k accounts they have suspended since last year. Do you know how to attract and retain women in your tech company? This infographic from Entrepeneur.com has some great data that we love. And VentureBeat has six great tips for hiring and retaining the best female talent as well. How do you feel about Kik and Snapchat and other social networks that the ‘kids’ are on? We’ve got some thoughts we’d like to share…

Toronto’s own Freshbooks has an innovative new way to build teams — they’re setting up blind dates between their employees.And speaking of dating, we have thoughts about Katerina Lyadova’s approach — to hire someone as her dating profile manager — for $12 an hour. Who knew that the price of love was so low?Your Instagram might finally have an update worth sticking around for called Mashfeed.Sting is scheduled to play at the NBA All-Star’s halftime show and the folks on twitter do NOT approve. And if you haven’t heard of Heartmob, it’s time to get up to speed. The recently Kickstart-ed project promises to fight online harassment by offering real-time support, a place to upload and store evidence of the harassment and much more.

Strap yourself in because this is an episode full of ups and downs. The Girls Who Code scholarship is all up, with a plan to give away US $1 million to high school students who want to learn to code this summer. The non-profit’s inspiring plan is to offer the workshop to more than 1,600 XX’s and add to the 10,000 ladies who have already been trained through the program. In the list of downers this week, Gillian Anderson was offered half the salary of her fictitious FBI partner to star in the 6-part X-Files series. Now THAT’s something that I’d like to see burned with fire. We get a little more info about why Rey was excluded from the action figure toy packs for The Force Awakens and it’s all Dark Side if you know what I mean. And Vimeo’s new ‘Share the Screen’ initiative should have lifted us to new heights, and would have, if not for Gregory Alan Elliott’s not guilty win in his Twitter harassment case. To be clear, he was harassing, and now that he’

Here come the #WhiteOscars again, bereft of a person of color, except for the guy who is hosting (poor Chris Rock). But is it a problem with the awards show or a larger problem with the industry? According to PBS (and the two of us) it’s the latter.  If you’re on Peach, we’d love to hear from you… Hell, we’d love to hear what you think of it, cause we’re still figuring it out. Have you seen the Battleship game all fancied up with the periodic table? OH you NEED TO.  And our special guest this week is Pin & Tucker co-founder Tracie Wagman.

The Golden Globes made a statement this year, supporting Amy Poehler's #SmartGirlsAsk campaign, encouraging people to ask the kinds of questions of actresses that are worthy of them. We think that's fabulous. We also think Carrie Fisher is three kinds of fab for her response to the body-shamers who attacked her on social media after her stellar appearance in Star Wars: The Force Awakens. The Code-a-pillar from Fisher Price is one of the cool items that popped up around CES 2016, and we also love the Prism - we'll tell you why. And we're NOT SORRY to tell you about the new 'Just Not Sorry' Chrome extension that will help all of us limit our 'dampening phrases.'

Oh Steve Harvey, it could have happened to anyone, but not everyone would be able to recover from naming the wrong Miss Universe, with a photo and a tweet. Was 2015 the year of Open Source? According to Wired Magazine it was. And on the other side of the spectrum, you’ve got FastCo predicting the End of the Infographic. Think you’re gluten-intolerant? Yeah, you and everyone else. Now, if you’re really gluten-intolerant, you might be interested in the Nima food detector. And our tooltip for this week comes from the AppSumo newsletter and it's called the PushBullet.

Our latest BLAB was full of our predictions for changes in the digital industry for 2016. We were joined by Tara Hunt and Tamera Kremer, two stellar ladies in their fields PLUS everyone on BLAB who joined us live - listen in!

IBM has once again proved how disconnected it is from the general population by offending more than half of it with their #hackyourhairdryer campaign aimed at women in STEM professions. Fortunately, both France and the Donald threw out the idea of banning public wi fi (because terrorists are easily dissuaded from their targets by using a data plan to communicate) so maybe IBM won't be able to stick their entire foot in their mouth digitally. But just in time to restore our faith in the world, a Girl Scout group in Orange County, Florida just earned their STEM badges. All this AND a talk about Trudeau gracing the pages of Vogue magazine means this is a podcast you MUST listen to.

Geneviève Bergeron (born 1968), civil engineering student Hélène Colgan (born 1966), mechanical engineering student Nathalie Croteau (born 1966), mechanical engineering student Barbara Daigneault (born 1967), mechanical engineering student Anne-Marie Edward (born 1968), chemical engineering student Maud Haviernick (born 1960), materials engineering student Maryse Laganière (born 1964), budget clerk in the École Polytechnique’s finance department Maryse Leclair (born 1966), materials engineering student Anne-Marie Lemay (born 1967), mechanical engineering student Sonia Pelletier (born 1961), mechanical engineering student Michèle Richard (born 1968), materials engineering student Annie St-Arneault (born 1966), mechanical engineering student Annie Turcotte (born 1969), materials engineering student Barbara Klucznik-Widajewicz (born 1958), nursing student It has been 26 years since the Montreal Massacre at École Polytechnique and we don’t believe eno