Comment Re:Seriously... look at the authors (Score 1) 346
How could you have gone to the lengths to look up her CV and academic career and so completely miss the point of all the research that she's done?
The organizations that she has listed are not exclusionary in the least they focus on helping women into technical careers and welcome ANYONE that has an interest in that area. There are a number of male researchers that are participants in the exact same organizations that do the similar research and aren't looked down on in any way and in fact have helped to advance the field as a whole.
As a personal friend of the author I can tell you that I'm positive she thinks that would be a good club. Any time that people can get together and share common interests and network with each other is a boon to the community and the company that they work for, whether the groups break down by gender lines, socio-economic lines, leisure interest lines or what have you.
As to being a sexist paper it focuses around creating gender equanimity and fair and equal working conditions. It's easy to find statistics about how the gender breakdown beginning at lower middle management begins to become heavily skewed in favor of males. This research and most research like it is simply trying to help foster equal or proportionally equal to the population at large representations in the workforce at all levels. How is that sexist? The same research is being done on race, religion, etc. It's about having fair representations not about putting one group in power over another.
As to the fact that this comment was rated as insightful I'm very disappointed that anyone could miss the bigoted and ad hominem attack that it constitutes.
Plus, three the four professional organizations she claims on her CV are sexist, discriminatory and exclusionary - yet if anybody ever suggested to her that there should be an organization for "Men in the Sciences and Engineering" what do you suppose her reaction would be?
The organizations that she has listed are not exclusionary in the least they focus on helping women into technical careers and welcome ANYONE that has an interest in that area. There are a number of male researchers that are participants in the exact same organizations that do the similar research and aren't looked down on in any way and in fact have helped to advance the field as a whole.
As a personal friend of the author I can tell you that I'm positive she thinks that would be a good club. Any time that people can get together and share common interests and network with each other is a boon to the community and the company that they work for, whether the groups break down by gender lines, socio-economic lines, leisure interest lines or what have you.
As to being a sexist paper it focuses around creating gender equanimity and fair and equal working conditions. It's easy to find statistics about how the gender breakdown beginning at lower middle management begins to become heavily skewed in favor of males. This research and most research like it is simply trying to help foster equal or proportionally equal to the population at large representations in the workforce at all levels. How is that sexist? The same research is being done on race, religion, etc. It's about having fair representations not about putting one group in power over another.
As to the fact that this comment was rated as insightful I'm very disappointed that anyone could miss the bigoted and ad hominem attack that it constitutes.
