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

[Damian Rouson]

I am grateful to those who expressed support for the survey, its aims, and
my related comments.  I am especially thankful for the leadership of Steve
and Bryce.  When leaders articulate support for a diverse and inclusive
future, it creates the space for that future to happen.

The following podcast episode from 2014 provides some fascinating data,
showing that the percentage of women in computer science roughly tracked
the rising percentages of women in medical school, law school, and the
physical sciences up to around 1984, after which point the percentage of
women in computer science fell while their percentages in the other fields
continued to rise, approaching parity with men:

NPR Planet Money: When Women Stopped Coding
<https://www.npr.org/sections/money/2016/07/22/487069271/episode-576-when-women-stopped-coding>

I realize most of us are not computer scientists, but I suspect these
trends are relevant. The data make clear that these percentages are not
constants of nature and can change significantly over time.  Let's hope the
U.N. and ISO efforts help to turn the slope positive again.

Damian

On Tue, Jun 2, 2020 at 6:13 PM Bryce Adelstein Lelbach aka wash via J3 <
j3 at mailman.j3-fortran.org> wrote:

> I also want to make this clear: comments like this are not acceptable.
>
> Diversity and inclusiveness is important for SC22/PL22 and all of their
> subgroups, including WG5/PL22.3. We have serious and systemic diversity
> problems and we must proactively work to ensure that our standardization
> communities are welcoming environments for everyone.
>
> --
> 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
> --
>
> On Tue, Jun 2, 2020, 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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