At 12:15 PM 4/13/2013, John C Klensin wrote:
--On Friday, April 12, 2013 23:37 -0400 Andrew Sullivan
<ajs(_at_)anvilwalrusden(_dot_)com> wrote:
The only lesson I really learned from that experience is that
it is incredibly hard for women[1] to be treated as adult
colleagues in an environment that acts overwhelmingly as a
white male club.
JJ Thompson, Grace Anscomb, etc., notwithstanding. Similarly,
Grace Hopper, Jean Sammet, Jane Thompson, Martha Steenstrup,
Deborah Estrin, Sally Floyd, etc.
And to confuse this even more, what was most important about Martha, Debbie and
Sally with respect to the health of the IETF were their presenence in the
academic and research space, not so much their gender except as possibly role
models for new female attendees.
Maybe what we do is ask some of the large network companies to fund a few
research fellowships on topics that might be of interest to the IETF in the 3-5
year time frame for post-doc types?
That doesn't change your point other than to identify a
different fallacy in the "girl-philosophy" hypothesis and its
computer science / networking analogies. If you haven't heard
of some of the above, it demonstrations a slightly different
point. It may also suggest that there is an area in which the
IETF is absolutely non-discriminatory: there is no evidence
that the IETF has been any more effective in driving, e.g.,
Martha or Deborah out than with Crowcroft, Elz, Clark, Chapin,
...
:-(
john