On Sunday 04 October 2009 09:07 AM, ss wrote: > On Sunday 04 Oct 2009 8:11:18 am Deepa Mohan wrote: >> Pranesh, what brought on the query about the distaff side? > > Yes - what is your a-gender Pranesh?
First off: that pun is truly inspired! As for the reason I asked, I could give either the long version, which goes back a few months, and includes many conversations about gender and technology and techno-feminism and theory vs. practice and..., or the short one: This is a question I often wonder about many mailing lists / online groups, and Silk (the athropomorphic mailing list) is pretty much the only one reflexive enough for me to ask it. (I'd asked Udhay to CC the group if he thought the question was interesting enough for general conversation on the list). Further: Most of the mailing lists I'm on seem to be predominantly male, and the majority of my feeds come from blogs authored by men. A quick survey of my Twitter followers list shows that it is mostly men. My Facebook friends list is more gender-balanced, but my LinkedIn contacts list is again skewed towards men. While my 'real life' interactions with people seem to be somewhat balanced, my virtual interactions are mostly with self-identified men. So self-selection on my part doesn't seem to be the answer. So, I asked. A related thought: on the average Indian city street (at least in Bangalore, New Delhi, Madras, Bombay, Baroda, and Calcutta) I see *far more* men than women, while in the streets of Hanoi (at least the Old Quarters) I found that women outnumbered men. That was odd.
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