Feminist stuff

[juliet]

I mentioned this to a few people at the weekend, so here are the links:

Article by Peggy McIntosh discussing invisible white privilege (i.e. invisible to white people - the advantages you gain but don't notice)
An imitation of that article discussing invisible male privilege.

And something else I came across recently: an article on women in computer science which covers quite a lot of other issues of societal stereotyping/sexism. Note that it dates from 1991, so the examples are obviously a little old, and I think things *have* moved on - but the underlying argument is still interesting, and I certainly don't think that everything mentioned has been overcome, sadly.

Comments

women in computing

[ewx.livejournal.com]

I was wondering about roughly the same question in someone else's journal recently. The EOF are interested too (http://www.eoc.org.uk/cseng/news/11_august_segregation_online_survey.asp).

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[ewx.livejournal.com]

Err, EOC, rather. <stdio.h> on the brain, or something.