We have become a society that no longer wants to or even can take responsibility for what it produces. The alt-right, for example, is another word for institutionalized racism, but much easier to swallow.
All discomfort needs to be assuaged, mollified, turned into something we can stomach or ignore.
It’s painful to call things as they really are.
Takahashi makes some excellent points in her article about men and violence. She calls attention to the fact that while 99% of all mass killings are committed by men, the media don’t ever point out this fact.
Google Chairman Eric Schmidt is puzzled, he’s repeatedly said so.
And the source of his puzzlement? He doesn’t understand why there are so few women in the tech sector, including his company, Google.
I believe he’s actually baffled, because sometimes things can be so ubiquitous as to be invisible.
Full Article by Francesca Gino and Alison Wood Brooksfor the Harvard Business Review
This article by Francesca Gino and Alison Wood Brooks does a great job of pointing out some of the reasons given for the gender imbalance leadership, including institutional barriers and men’s innate tendency towards dominance.
So, listen up, Silicon Valley.
There aren’t enough women coders, not because they don’t care or aren’t competent, but because Silicon Valley made the choice to exclude them.
Women and girls need to be given a chance to experience coding in a safe environment so that the great paucity of females in high tech can begin to be remedied.
Amy Wright’s Huffington Post blog about busy women CEOs or “ladypreneurs”, contains some tidbits of advice for women who would be leaders.
The question is, would we be giving this advice to men? If not, why not?
March is women’s history month, and this is the story of a group of remarkable women who rocked the Catholic Church in the 1960s in an upheaval that is still felt today.
Full Article by Lisa Miller for the New York Magazine
This study talks about “rich people”, yet the subjects mentioned (which I assume are sampling of the group) are male. Have the researchers also conducted this research with women?
A Brief Comment on “The New Misogyny: Taking Aim at the Women of the One”
The plutocracy has always been fair game.
I’m willing to bet, always will be. The Women of the One benefit from a system that advantages them at the expense of others, and, as such, they are a legitimate object of criticism.
Not to hold them responsible for their actions (or inactions) because they are women is to take away their power and drop-kick them back to a time of “I promise to love, honor, and obey….”
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