[Linux-aus] geek feminism - from the other side

Paul Shirren shirro at shirro.com
Wed Mar 2 10:37:08 EST 2011


On 1/03/11 10:15 PM, Paul Wayper wrote:
> Russell has expressed it well.  It's not the gender, it's the dedication that
> makes women in IT valuable.

If you want to be taken seriously for your engineering skills but
instead you are seen as merely "dedicated" isn't that still a negative
bias.

Apparently it isn't all bad news out there:
http://blog.pamelafox.org/2009/10/being-girl-in-cs-doesnt-suck.html
http://www.jeanhsu.com/?p=263




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