A piece on Turkey’s brain drain in terms of female coders

In the summer of 2013, Gülçin Yildirim, a database administrator, received an invitation for a meeting at an Istanbul chocolate shop with 11 other female coders. They were there to do something about the sexism they experienced in their workplaces. By the meeting’s end, they had formed a group that aimed to connect women in tech to fight gender-based discrimination and prejudice in the industry. One of the women, Elif Kuş, who had called for the meeting, suggested the group be named Kadin Yazilimci — or women coders — because when they searched the Turkish term on Google, nothing came up. Continue to read