Friday, October 17, 2014

Boys will be stand-up guys

Okay, I’ll finish out the week with an article from the Canadian publication Maclean’s in which the writer lays out why he’ll no longer speak on all-male panels.

Scott Gilmore’s piece was published before the UN announced its conference on gender equality that was not to include women, and before the Grace Hopper Celebration, where the CEO of Microsoft told women in tech that they’ll get their monetary rewards by not asking for raises, and the all-male panel of tech company executives thought they’d simplify the process of discussing the systemic cultural failures within their organizations by not actually discussing them.

Clearly no one from the UN or any technology corporation read the piece, but they should. It’s not too late.

And if they are confused in any way about his point, I’m sure Gilmore would be happy to discuss it with them. Man to man.



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