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

[Bryce Adelstein Lelbach aka wash]

> This is absurdly irrelevant politics.

When we are a small part of something big, it can be difficult to
understand the wider context. Please allow me to provide some
perspective.

In 2015, the United Nations approved the UN Sustainable Development
Goals [0], a fifteen year plan to address pressing global challenges
such as poverty and inequality. One of those goals is Gender Equality
[1]; studies have found gender inequality has significant negative
ramifications on the global economy [2]. ISO, as a general
consultative member of the UN Economic and Social Council, is
committed to contributing to the success of that plan through the
development of standards [3].

Our most valuable asset is our member organizations and their networks
of technical experts. The success of ISO standards hinges upon the
participation of a diverse stakeholders representative of the entire
global community. We are all responsible for identifying and fixing
representation gaps.

ISO standards codify processes and technologies vital to human life,
such as food chain management (ISO 22000, [4]), and water
management/sanitation (ISO 24518, [5]). These standards impact all
people, and often disproportionately affect women in developing
countries. If some types of people are underrepresented in standards
development, how can we have confidence that those standards will
work?

> Let's just do our jobs without getting fanatical about politics.

You are a technical expert appointed by the United States national
standards body to contribute to the development of ISO standards on
behalf of your country.

This /is/ a part of your job.

The survey is optional. Stakeholder engagement is not.

[0]: https://www.un.org/sustainabledevelopment/sustainable-development-goals
[1]: https://www.iso.org/sdg/SDG05.html
[2]: https://doi.org/10.1787/bc56d212-en
[3]: https://www.iso.org/capacity-building.html
[4]: https://www.iso.org/sdg/SDG02.html
[5]: https://www.iso.org/sdg/SDG06.html

On Tue, Jun 2, 2020 at 12:10 PM 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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Bryce Adelstein Lelbach aka wash
US Programming Language Standards (PL22) Chair
ISO C++ Library Evolution Chair
CppCon and C++Now Program Chair
CUDA Core C++ Libraries (Thrust, CUB, libcu++) Lead @ NVIDIA
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