On Sat, Jan 08, 2000 at 01:52:03PM +1100 or thereabouts, Claudine Chionh wrote:
> Current Computer Professionals for Social Responsibility newsletter
> (http://www.cpsr.org/) focuses on gender issues in computing -- I
> found this link from Slashdot, which is a nice change from their usual
> take on the place of women in computing. I'm in the process of
> downloading a few articles; a fair bit of reading for the next few
> days. Discussion, anyone?
I haven't had time to read all those articles yet, but they looked
good. The name of the submitter caught my eye: Ellen Spertus has a
mass of stuff online about this topic, and it makes for interesting
reading.
I stupidly looked at the Slashdot discussion, which was a mistake.
(Someone told me I should avoid it because it would irritate me,
so naturally I had to look. How silly of me.) The link itself
might be a nice change from their usual stuff, but the discussion
there is the same as ever: "I'm a woman and I get no discrimination"
gets moderated to five, and comments about "it's true; I see few
women in my sci/math class" and "it's true; I have experienced
this" are down at one and zero with the trolls and flamebait.
Telsa
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