[J3] [EXTERNAL] (SC22WG5.6222) Fwd: [SC22] ISO Gender Action Plan Survey

[Damian Rouson]

Van,

Wow.  How this survey can seem absurd or irrelevant to a member of a body
that is nearly 100% homogeneous in terms of gender is beyond me. Your
response is stunning in its tone-deafness, especially in light of the
context of what’s happening around us right now to put other societal
inequities on full display.  Let me register that I am profoundly pleased
and encouraged that this survey is taking place.  I hope to someday live in
a world wherein no well-meaning person walks into a room that is very
nearly completely homogeneous in terms of any number of demographic
dimensions along which there  have been centuries of oppression and
announces that any attempt to even gather data related to such an obvious
imbalance is irrelevant or absurd.

Damian

On Tue, Jun 2, 2020 at 12:10 Van Snyder via J3 <j3 at mailman.j3-fortran.org>
wrote:

> This is absurdly irrelevant politics. Let's just do our jobs without
> getting fanatical about politics.
>
> On Tue, 2020-06-02 at 13:43 -0400, Steve Lionel via J3 wrote:
> > Dear ISO expert,
> >
> >
> > In September 2019, the ISO Council approved the ISO Gender Action
> > Plan
> > 2019-2021. Priority 1 of this Action Plan is the collection of
> > gender
> > data on ISO members’ top management, technical committees, experts
> > and
> > governance bodies representatives. The goal is to understand the
> > current
> > gender balance as well as the participation of the next generation
> > in
> > ISO’s activities and to use this as the baseline for the effective
> > monitoring of progress towards long-term objectives.
> >
> > Within this context, I am pleased to share the ISO Central
> > Secretariat
> > Gender Action Plan - Expert survey. Completing the survey takes less
> > than 2 minutes.
> > Please complete the survey
> > https://www.smartsurvey.co.uk/s/Expert_survey/
> > I thank you in advance for sharing this survey with the experts of
> > your
> > TC, SC, PC and/or WG. The survey will be open until 1 September 2020.
> >
> > Responses to this survey are anonymous. No contact details are
> > collected, and the respondents’ IP address is discarded as soon as
> > the
> > respondent visits the survey. ISO is committed to protecting the
> > privacy
> > of its members and experts and that is why we selected SmartSurvey,
> > a
> > provider which assures GDPR compliance (see the SmartSurvey privacy
> > policy: www.smartsurvey.co.uk/privacy-policy)
> >
> > Participating in the survey is voluntary. However, the more data we
> > collect the better we will be able to inform future initiatives to
> > enhance the gender representation in standardization work which will
> > lead to improved performance and better results.
> >
> > Once compiled, the results of the survey will be shared with ISO
> > members.”.
> >
> > I thank you in advance for your contribution to this important
> > matter.
> >
> > Best regards,
> >
> > sergio mujica secretary-general | ISO Central Secretariat | Phone:
> > +41
> > 22 749 01 11
> >
> >
> >
>
>
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