On 6/19/13 10:16 AM, Doug Barton wrote:
It's not clear to me how this example relates to the IETF.
Even in fields in which the overwhelming majority of
practitioners, the majority of people in leadership or
management positions are men. Everybody's got good
intentions - I'd be very surprised if anybody is sitting
around consciously thinking that women are less capable
of doing a good job in management than men. But you
end up with some disturbing trends in aggregate. Meaning
well really is not enough, and as I said my expectation
is that we'll get a few cycles of trying to be more
balanced but we won't get institutional change that would
inhibit backsliding.
... and while we're on that topic, what are you doing to help?
That is truly an unfortunate line of argument, and I hope
you don't use it very often.
Melinda