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Re: [Fsuk-manchester] Fwd: Event: Manchester Girl Geek Dinner #2 - 7:00


From: Lucy
Subject: Re: [Fsuk-manchester] Fwd: Event: Manchester Girl Geek Dinner #2 - 7:00 PM Friday, July 25, 2008
Date: Mon, 28 Jul 2008 12:39:50 +0100

On 28/07/2008, Paul Waring <address@hidden> wrote:
[snip]
>  however I can't go
>  to a Geek Girls Dinner or WISET event - not because of my interest in
>  the subject being discussed (some of the talks given I would like to go
>  to) but purely because of my gender.
>
In his last email Paul R actually said:
"If there are guys looking to go to the next one, I'll try and arrange
some invites providing you're not going to show me up and talk down to
women self-organising themselves into a community project that helps
the sector as a whole."

I'm not sure how I stand on excluding men from the meal (unless they
have an invite) - none of the online women's groups I know of exclude
men (ubuntu-women, linux chix etc), but I can understand the
reasoning. There is not equality in computing, particularly in FOSS,
at present, so you need to look at things from a slightly different
perspective. The meal is trying to prioritise women and to give them
an opportunity to get together and socialise in a way that they
clearly aren't able to do in the usual groups where men are in charge.

I think that having a women-only get together is necessary while this
inequality exists, and yes, it can actually help to bring equality by
giving the women a chance to network and the encouragement to join the
existing groups.




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