http://lquilter.net/blog/archives/2005/11/28/good-reading-november-edition a reality-based, fantasy-influenced journal on information, autonomy & the world Thu, 04 Nov 2010 12:21:15 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 http://lquilter.net/blog/archives/2005/11/28/good-reading-november-edition/comment-page-1#comment-24622 derivative work » Blog Archive » bias [draft] Fri, 09 Dec 2005 21:36:55 +0000 http://lquilter.net/blog/?p=445#comment-24622 [...] NYPL hosted a panel a few weeks ago on the Google Print issue. I noticed that there were no women on the panel. This was shortly after I’d seen a flyer for a conference Yale was hosting on Search, which also had very very few numbers of female speakers or commentators. I’d been trying to craft a cogent & reasoned critique of sexism in the industry and practices that lead to gender disparate conference panels in a field where, if anything, a majority of leading scholars are women. In the meantime, Ann Bartow wrote on the matter, and I linked to her in lieu of posting separately, and then I got focused on other things. [...] [...] NYPL hosted a panel a few weeks ago on the Google Print issue. I noticed that there were no women on the panel. This was shortly after I’d seen a flyer for a conference Yale was hosting on Search, which also had very very few numbers of female speakers or commentators. I’d been trying to craft a cogent & reasoned critique of sexism in the industry and practices that lead to gender disparate conference panels in a field where, if anything, a majority of leading scholars are women. In the meantime, Ann Bartow wrote on the matter, and I linked to her in lieu of posting separately, and then I got focused on other things. [...]

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