Welcome to Open Heroines

Welcome to the Open Heroines website, a place where you can learn about our work, collaborate with others and help us promote women and non-binary people in open data, open government and civic tech.
As an intersectional feminist online community, we acknowledge the different pathways of our members and strive to collaborate and work in the promotion of women and non-binary people in the open spaces.

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There is a considerably lower number of women and non-binary people advocating for open governments, promoting open data use and even building/managing civic technologies. There are frustrations that come with working in male-dominated spaces such as pay discrimination, sexual harassment, opinions/expertise being overlooked, etc. We use our platform to further these conversations.

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Pay Discrimination

How Does Pay Discrimination Impact Careers?

Why Should Organisations Adopt an Open Salary Policy?

Toxic Workspaces

Open Gender Monologues — Bad Bosses edition

This Open Gender Monologue post is dedicated to our bosses in the open data, open government, and civic tech sphere. Based on our good leadership blog post, we decided to share with you some of our experiences of bad leadership. Speaking about incidents of bad leadership is challenging. Usually, our…

July 4, 2017

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8 min

Open Gender Monologues — Toxic Work Environments Part 1

Introduction The year is 2020. We’re still far from achieving gender equality, and many women still don’t feel comfortable at work. This International Women’s Day (IWD) 2020, we’ve decided to go back to basics – and advocate for better and healthier work environments. We know, #metoo is very 2018, but toxic…

March 8, 2020

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5 min

Open Gender Monologues — Toxic Work Environments Part 2

This week, in honor of International Women’s Day, we are publishing a series of monologues from women in toxic work environments in the open data, open government, and civic tech spaces. This model is based off OH’s Open Gender Monologues, opening up space for women to share experiences and tell…

March 10, 2020

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3 min

Abolish Manels!

Screenshot of an events calendar planning.

MANELs against corruption: highlighting injustice with all male panels at 17th IACC

This thought kept running in my head while I was sitting in the many MANELs (all male-panels) at the 17th International Anti-Corruption Conference (IACC) in Panama.

Hera Hussain

January 11, 2017

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2 min