The power of role models
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The power of role models
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#3This is a fine and good idea, as long as the central pillar is that we remain meritocratic first, everything else should come after that.
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#4>Nor were they wallflowers.
what does wallflowers mean here?
definition 3 ? http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=wallflower
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#5>Nor were they wallflowers. what does wallflowers mean here? definition 3 ? http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=wallflower
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#6>Nor were they wallflowers. what does wallflowers mean here? definition 3 ? http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=wallflower
That would appear to be correct in my regular understanding of how that term is used.
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#7> The best way to improve the representation of women in the field is [...] to promote them. [...] To push them into positions of influence.
I am all for equality in chances for all people, men and women, black and white, gay and straight, anything really, but this affirmative action "promote X because she is a women" (or black, or XXX) is something I will fight against with all my being and all my forces until the day I die.
I strongly feel this type of insidious thinking is the most dangerous thing facing humanity today, worse than global warming, the united states, or global war. I will never be silent against this rampant so-called-positive sexism.
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#8This is a fine and good idea, as long as the central pillar is that we remain meritocratic first, everything else should come after that.
What if we start from an assumption though that things are currently not meritocrous? Doesn't that then imply if we want to get to a place of full meritocracy some things need to be done that are different than the status quo?
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#9"In my long career, I had never before been in a room like that, and the difference in tone, conversation, respect, and professionalism was unlike any I have experienced."
Back when I was contracting I visited a lot of sites, my heart would sink when it was an all male team, you just knew the tone would be different.
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#10> The best way to improve the representation of women in the field is [...] to promote them. [...] To push them into positions of influence. I am all for equality in chances for all people, men and women, black and white, gay and straight, anything really, but this affirmative action "promote X because she is a women" (or black, or XXX) is something I will fight against with all my being and all my forces until the d…
Why? I mean, you took two paragraphs to write "I disagree", but you forgot the ", because".