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Subject: Re: Women's BOF in Phoenix?
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Date: Sat, 25-Apr-87 18:59:20 EDT
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In article <6954@bu-cs.BU.EDU> bzs@bu-cs.BU.EDU (Barry Shein) writes:
>
>Being as I was in the original kitchen where the BOF was proposed (as
>was Andy who seems to now have forgotten everything that was said, too
>much dip I assume) I will try and repeat for everyone's edification
>why the BOF seemed to have been proposed:
>
>Someone (Liz I think) remarked that the attendance of USENIX by women
>has been miniscule. No one knew why except for all the pat answers
>which were probably true, but it wasn't the right forum for such a
>discussion, everyone was too busy with the dip.

And her suggestion was passed on to Peter (USENIX top person), who
agreed that non-attendance by women (and minorities) was a definite
problem and in turn tasked Lizzie to come up with some ideas to
foster attendance.  She came up with several good ones (don't ask for
a list; it'll come out in time after it is polished) and came up with
the idea for the BOF to get MORE ideas on how to get more women to
USENIX.

Don't worry, it ain't AA -- just an attempt to find out better ways to
even out the gender numbers at USENIX.

The MAD Programmer -- 201-386-4295 (Cornet 232)
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