On Wed, 5 Jan 2000, Simon Britnell wrote:
> I wasn't originally stating that women in general or women at linuxchix
> specifically are pushing quotas ( and you're right, quotas are what's
> worrying me ). What I was trying to express is that I think complaining
> about demographics leads to quotas which ( as you say ) are a *bad*
> quick-fix.
I agree with you. Perhaps the best criticism of them comes from what I've
read from Thomas Sowell.
> I'm also worried about a lot of work and pain going into shifting the
> social stereotype, but it still being the same old social stereotype
> only pointed in a different direction and maybe having a bigger
> magnitude because people have pushed hard for it.
Taking it out of the Linux arena for a while (partly because the info
about this quite remarkable woman just came to my attention), the number
of women who own seats in the stock market is extremely small. See:
http://www.msiebert.com/html/mickie.html
It's not just geekdom that's an issue.
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