Robert Kiesling wrote:
>
> IIRC, this discussion began when some (male) poster sent some old,
> reworked rhetoric about how males made intrinsically better IT workers
> than women, or something like that. Incidentally, the military was
> associated with it... I'm not sure how.
This subject line didn't involve the military - that was a different
subject line. This one started with 'I think it sucks that people want to
enforce quotas, demographic shifts don't make equality', only phrased in
such as way that it sounded like /we/ (people on this list and people like
us) were after quotas, not equality.
At least, if *I* recall correctly. :)
> So all I'm really
> getting at is that each person is a special instance, and each of them
> certainly can tell some story about how they were put upon by their
> boss, but I don't think that sort of anecdotal evidence applies to all
> workers of a group, or that it would help in making work and
> compensation more equitable for the greatest number of people of any
> field. How you or I would cope with our individual situations
> probably isn't relevant in the context of how everyone copes with
> their work environments. Isn't that what we were talking about?
Not that I recall - and I disagree anyway, actually.
I agree that any given anecdote, or any set of anecdotes, don't apply to
all workers of a group - but I disagree that compiling and discussing
anecdotes can't help make things more equal. I also feel that how we cope
with our individual situations can give other people methods for coping
with theirs, and can make them feel less alone.
If I have developed a way to prove my competence quickly, and to stop being
treated as 'the wife', how does NOT sharing this help others do the same?
Jenn V.
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This is women's work!"
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