On the road to Grace Hopper 2016

Last year, on my way from the airport to my hotel before the Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Technology, I shared a cab with a female software engineer who worked in R & D. We were chatting about our jobs and about what our plans were for the show, when the driver asked why we were in town.
She briefly explained, and the driver shook his head and replied, "Why don't they have any of these software conferences just for men?! I mean, you're just leaving people out. That's not cool!"
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