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Featured / August 09, 2017

Google, diversity, and sexist memos: the Crankypm's perspective

Google, diversity, and sexist memos: the Crankypm's perspective

Bet you're dying to know what the formerly Cranky Product Manager thinks of this whole Google memo situation, right? No? Well, the whole situation has made me so cranky, it's brought me out of blogging retirement. I'm going to tell…

People Management Product Management Big Issues Women In Tech

March 15, 2015

Quora: How should paternity leave be arranged for a gay man with an adopted child?

Orignally posted to Quora. Q: How should paternity leave be arranged for a gay man with an adopted child? Should he get paternity leave, which is usually shorter, or maternity leave? If he gets maternity leave, doesn't this suggest he…

Family by Adoption Personal Quora Big Issues Parenting

August 13, 2014

Quora: Does the American government stimulate the adoption of foreign children with disabilities?

My answer to a question originally published on Quora. Q: Why does the American government stimulate the adoption of foreign children with disabilities? What's the use of these children for the country's welfare and future? My Answer: I'll start off…

Family by Adoption Quora Big Issues

June 09, 2014

Quora: Is it selfish to use IVF, IUI, or other artificial forms of reproduction?

My answer, originally published on Quora. Q: Infertility: Do you think that using IVF, IUI, or other artificial forms of reproduction is selfish? Some people feel that infertile couples who turn to artificial methods of reproduction are selfish because there…

Family by Adoption Quora Big Issues

Featured / February 28, 2014

Quora: Why aren't there more female programmers?

My answer, originally published on Quora. My Answer The most obvious answer: Fewer and fewer girls are studying math and computer science in college, and Of those women who do graduate in those fields, and who even become programmers, they…

Women In Tech Personal Quora Big Issues Work

November 17, 2013

Quora: Why do so few African-American children get adopted?

Quora:  Why do so few African-American children get adopted?

My answer, originally published on Quora. Q: Why do so few African-American children get adopted? My sister has been looking to adopt for a while now so we've been talking about adoption in general for some time. Over several conversations…

Family by Adoption Quora Big Issues

November 15, 2013

Quora: Do people in other countries adopt American children?

My answer, originally posted on Quora. My Answer Yes, but there is some debate about how many are adopted each year. It is probably in the 100s, and the leading foreign adopter of American children is Canada. Source: Overseas adoptions…

Family by Adoption Quora Big Issues

October 16, 2013

Quora: On nannies, stay-at-home parents & feminism

My comments on an answer to a Quora question. Original Question: Motherhood: Are stay at home moms/dads who have a full-time nanny lazy? One person who answered this question basically said YES for the following reasons. "This trend…

Quora Big Issues Parenting

October 05, 2012

Quora: What are the disadvantages of being a female in a male-dominated CS/engineering university?

My answer, originally published on Quora Q: What are the disadvantages of being a female in a male-dominated CS/engineering university? ##My Answer The other answers to this question are all spot-on and great. I will just add one more.…

Women In Tech Quora Big Issues Work

November 28, 2011

Quora: How do gay male parents substitute for breast-feeding for their babies?

My answer, originally published on Quora. My Answer They do it the way ANY adoptive parent -- male or female, gay or straight - does it: usually -bottle-feeding with formula. Entire generations of kids grew up healthy on just formula,…

Family by Adoption Quora Big Issues Parenting

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I'm a product management geek, born-again engineer, single adoptive mother of boys, coach & mentor, trail runner, tinkerer, no-bull communicator, wannabe writer, room mother, compulsive researcher, pragmatic progressive, and technopile-luddite.

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  • August 09, 2017

    Google, diversity, and sexist memos: the Crankypm's perspective

    Google, diversity, and sexist memos: the Crankypm's perspective
  • January 12, 2016

    The New Assholes of the Tech Industry

    The New Assholes of the Tech Industry
  • October 06, 2015

    QUORA: Why is having biological children usually a couple's first choice, rather than adopting a newborn?

    QUORA: Why is having biological children usually a couple's first choice, rather than adopting a newborn?

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