Lauren has been professionally programming since 2006. She started doing front-end work primarily, and transitioned to back end development using primarily Ruby and Rails. Currently, she works for LivingSocial, and has been throughly enjoying that endeavor. She has been speaking professionally since 2013 on a range of technical topics, as well as teaching and mentoring in the Pittsburgh area with GirlDevelopIt! Though she spends most of her time talking about and teaching Ruby, she also has a profound appreciation and proficiency with JavaScript.
On International Workers' Day I asked the world to #talkpay and many people did. Pay transparency is critical in order to address pay inequity in our field, as well as others, but there's more to it than that. I'd like to talk about why this taboo surrounding pay got started, illustrate just how concerted of an effort there is to prevent workers (including tech workers) from pushing for higher pay, and why, exactly, we NEED to talk about pay.
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