For those interested in gender bias, you might want to look at this
"Like a girl" campaign, which questions the meaning that "Like a girl"
has in our language, and suggests redefining it.
http://m.dailylife.com.au/life-and-love/parenting-and-families/the-advertising-campaign-that-will-make-you-proud-to-run-like-a-girl-20140627-3ax9w.html?utm_source=social&utm_medium=facebook&utm_campaign=june&eid=socialn:fac-13omn1676-edtrl-other:nnn-17/02/2014-edtrs_socialshare-all-nnn-nnn-vars-o
On 25/07/2014 12:59 am, Jo Cook wrote:
I totally agree with Maria. As a female member of OSGeo I don't really
feel that my gender matters in the slightest. I'm far more concerned
about a bias towards people from the US or Northern/Western Europe if
we are trying to be truly global.
Jo
On Thu, Jul 24, 2014 at 3:55 PM, María Arias de Reyna
<delawen+os...@gmail.com <mailto:delawen+os...@gmail.com>> wrote:
On Thu, Jul 24, 2014 at 4:45 PM, Jeff McKenna
<jmcke...@gatewaygeomatics.com
<mailto:jmcke...@gatewaygeomatics.com>> wrote:
It has been reported to me directly that there are not enough
female
nominations for Charter members. I just want to bring this to the
attention of the whole community.
Thanks all,
-jeff
Agreed.
On the other hand, no one should be nominated just because of
their gender. In the long run, it doesn't help increasing female
numbers. (It won't be the first time someone thinks I am where I
am just because I am female and not because I worked hard.)
I'm sorry if I am bothering someone, but I am very picky with all
this stuff. It is the eternal discussion about not having enough
female in tech organizations. If we want to have more female on
OsGeo, we should go to school now to have them in OsGeo in a few
years :)
Until then, does it really matter? Are we doing things different?
I know it looks very cool to have half and half but, is it really
important?
Regards,
María.
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