The Blood is The Life 17-01-2013
Thursday, January 17th, 2013 09:00 am![[personal profile]](http://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
miss_s_b- Aral Balkan — On false dichotomies and diversity.
"In an industry where 27–29% are female, if you manage to get a speaker line‐up with 0% female speakers, you have a bias. It does not necessarily mean that you’re a male chauvinist pig with a deep‐seated hatred for women who is determined to hoist the banner for sexism to exciting new heights with his next event. It may just mean that you have an unexamined, unconscious bias. If you care about diversity, this is the point where you should be disappointed in your process"
- Facebook's Questionable Policy on Violent Content Toward Women | Underwire | Wired.com
- 10 Awesome Female Engineers from Science Fiction
- James Frayne: Target, target, target
Interesting article on political strategy. Until the polling companies start producing local/constituency poll data like they do in the US, though, I can't see the advice being taken too seriously.
- The myth of the £104,000 housing benefit claimants | Andy McSmith | Independent Eagle Eye Blogs
- #LYElects : The Results!
Liberal Youth have elected a load of men. Witness my surprised face. To be fair, most of those standing were men. Sad Stace didn't win though.
- Welfare reform: the bedroom tax, 'a policy that has no logic' | Society | guardian.co.uk
- Transgender Lobby Search for New HQ
*cackle*
- The Care and Feeding of Tiny Humans (and slightly larger Time Lords) by Netgirl_y2k
In which we find out why little Amelia got taken home again until she grew a bit bigger.
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Date: Thursday, January 17th, 2013 10:50 am (UTC)