Hi all, hi Nelle, On 15 April 2014 22:23, Nelle Varoquaux <nelle.varoqu...@gmail.com> wrote: > As a member of a "minority ", I feel very uncomfortable with such quotas, > and if you ask women in computer science around Europe, they tend to feel > the same way (this may be very different in North America, as we have two > very different cultures when coming to these subject). I want my proposal to > be accepted for my work and not because I'm a woman, and I don't think I'll > ever submit to a conference where such rules are applied. > > I also think it gives a very negative image of women in science, specially > when the abstracts are just not good (an abstract accepted at pycon us > contained an error in the name of a python module *in the title* - it is > hard to take the talk seriously, and this is a disservice to do to the > speaker).
I'll take the risk of projecting a misogynistic image of myself, just to give you a thumb-up. Adding rules to promote a member of a minority group looks to me, at best, artificial. In this case, woman participation is going slowly up year after year. I certainly think (and hope!) that it's not just because of favorable discrimination; instead, it is most probably just a slow process of natural regulation that occurs inside a historically strongly biased subculture. This process can be encouraged, e.g. I'm fine if some grants are reserved to women; but I think that judging technical merits on a different scale is not a good way to do that. A bientôt, Armin. _______________________________________________ EuroPython 2014 Berlin, 21th27th July EuroPython mailing list EuroPython@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/europython
