Journey Planet; Gender Parity

[fjm]

Very impressed by this issue of Journey PlanetI have the urge to sit one or two people down and explain to them that if they believe no one thinks they are a token because a convention *doesn't* have Gender Parity, then they have clearly invested in some rose pink spectacles, but otherwise they are an intelligent set of articles

Comments

[emmzzi]

Lots on gender - but as a publication, not so hot on disability access. I am afraid I am sworn off it until it comes in e-pub to make it more readable for the visually impaired.

I may also have hit "gender debate fatigue" for a little while. There seems to have been nothing but gender debate for months. Which is healthy but tiring.

[fjm]

I had to print it out.

And yes to the fatigue. I try to explain this to younger activists, you can't stay angry all the time.

[coth]

I second that. I've only skimmed it because I can't get a whole PDF page displayed readably on my current monitor. (If I resize for larger text I lose the page layout, and if I keep the page the text is too small to read.) And also I do not want to read 92 pages sitting at my desk.

(NB Please don't tell me to buy an iPad. I will buy an iPad or similar when I want one and not because someone else wants me to have one.)

[fjm]

Actually it was an easy paper read because its 12 point font. But I couldn't read it on the lap top at all.

[makyo]

On a slightly related note, I've been reading about the German mathematician Emmy Noether over the last couple of days. I was aware of some of her achievements in mathematics, but I don't think I'd quite appreciated how hard she'd had to fight for recognition: she was Jewish and a woman working in an environment that was often highly unsympathetic to both (although she did have the support of several of her colleagues, in particular David Hilbert and Felix Klein). That she did all this with admirable stoicism and calmness even when she and her fellow Jewish academics were dismissed from their university posts in 1933 (due to legislation enacted by the new Nazi government) is even more impressive.

[jemck]

when I have time I must write a blog post explaining that 'positive discrimination' (bad) is NOT THE SAME as 'equal opportunity' (essential for men and women alike).

But that will have to wait until I am met this current deadly deadline...

[a_d_medievalist]

Do you mean that younger women are less conscious of discrimination in the now, and so are twigging it later in life?

[anef]

I think you'll find though, that the same arguments come round again. So once you have thought through the reasoning, you will be be able to make your point, and you'll be able to support it better because you've done the thinking.