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

[Brian Friesen]

> On Jun 2, 2020, at 2:03 PM, Damian Rouson via J3 <j3 at mailman.j3-fortran.org> wrote:
> 
> “Not turning away” is not sufficient.  If it were, then any number of deeply troubling imbalances that exist today would have been resolved by now.  They haven’t been and any attempt to even get the smallest amount of data relevant to the problem gets publicly ridiculed as “absurdly irrelevant.”  Again... stunning. 

I am happy to work with others in J3 and/or WG5 who are interested in understanding the gender imbalance problem in more detail, at least how it applies to these committees, but hopefully with a broader scope than just that. Although I am by no means a learned scholar in this field.

Gender imbalance in computer science and other STEM fields has been studied in enormous depth, resulting in a huge amount of literature, which both describes where the gender imbalance problems actually are, as well as provides concrete steps to fix them. The committee need not speculate deeply about this topic - the problem is anything but a mystery, and there is a wealth of information which can help us to understand it in more detail. E.g.,:

  - https://womeninhpc.org
  - https://womeninhpc.org/community/resources#!/women-resources
  - https://2ijii62k2ltx2pmwu447aemj-wpengine.netdna-ssl.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/Handout-recruiting-for-diversity-FINAL.pdf
  - https://2ijii62k2ltx2pmwu447aemj-wpengine.netdna-ssl.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/Handout-key-steps-for-improving-diversity-and-inclusion.pdf
  - https://2ijii62k2ltx2pmwu447aemj-wpengine.netdna-ssl.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/Microaggressionflier.pdf