We thought that after so many years in tech comm we knew a lot about this field. Then, we met Sharon Burton who proved us wrong. She is a seasoned Tech Writer and the author of the "Women in Technical Communication" book. It contains 69 stories of female experts, which show us the intricate history of technical communication.

Sharon joined us in this episode to talk about the evolution of the Technical Writer role, technological shifts in the last several decades that affected the process of writing documentation and challenges that women have to face in the IT industry.

Sounds used in this episode are part of the "107 Free Retro Game Sounds" collection, which is available at https://dominik-braun.net and shared under the Creative Commons license CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).

Show notes:

• "Women in Technical Communication", Sharon Burton,: https://www.sharonburton.com/
• The Society for Technical Communication (STC): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Society_for_Technical_Communication
• Tekom: https://www.technical-communication.org/
• MadCap Flare: https://www.madcapsoftware.com/products/flare/
• "Docs as Tests & AI", Manny Silva: https://www.docsastests.com/docs-as-tests-book/
• Topic-based authoring: https://www.madcapsoftware.com/blog/what-is-topic-based-authoring/
• CAKE Conf: https://cakeconf.contentbytes.pl/
• "Darwin Information Typing Architecture (DITA)", Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Darwin_Information_Typing_Architecture
• "Docs as Code", Write the Docs: https://www.writethedocs.org/guide/docs-as-code/
• Write the Docs (WTD): https://www.writethedocs.org/
• “Everybody Lies: Big Data, New Data, and What the Internet Can Tell Us About Who We Really Are”, Seth Stephens-Davidowitz: https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/28512671-everybody-lies