[ripe-list] Gender politics at RIPE

Excellent parenting is vital, but it's far from the only real solution.

When society as a whole is biased, it's easy to see how even people who 
were told they could do anything (and rightly believed that) could find 
their desires thwarted.

On top of parenting *and* doing what we can to improve things at all 
levels of education we have to look at what we as a community can do 
within and around ourselves.

We can work with people to improve diversity by working harder to find 
excellent speakers who also happen to not be (white) men. By doing this, 
by showing we're interested in diverse voices, we will attract more 
excellent speakers and improve the meeting and our community.

And we should lead, because I've always believed that that is what the 
RIPE community does.

Brian

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Nigel Titley wrote on 25/10/2016 10:12:
> But the only real solution to this is the one I have used personally. My children were encouraged to follow whatever career preferences they wished and the girls especially were encouraged not take shit from anyone.
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> Nigel
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> Sent from my iPad
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> On 25 Oct 2016, at 00:30, Randy Bush <randy at psg.com> wrote:
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>>> I do think we, as a community (and by extension, society) should aim
>>> to be better than the general status quo. We should be aiming higher.
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>> considering that our industry and the general society are horrifying
>> and embarrassing disasters in this area, we should aim for massively
>> better.
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>> randy
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