The Librarian @thelibrarian@scholar.social

I am planning on more frequently tooting passages from sources I'm reading and I am going to do so thus:

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Hi, I am an academic #librarian, #geospatial information scientist, computer scientist, #linguist (theoretically) and amateur #mathematician into #highered / #education, #public_policy, political theory & economics, societal issues (esp. interested in issues involving #social_emergence), and #systems_science. An #omnipologist if you will. Re-posting and pinning my #introduction for any new folks. alt-tags: #publicpolicy #socialemergence #systemsscience

"The way forward isn’t to teach girls to be more like boys—that’s just the same old patriarchal shit of privileging masculinity over femininity. Instead, we should be teaching *all* kids that wearing skirts and loving pink and wanting cuddly baby dolls are totally cool and fine ways to be. There’s nothing inherently bad about being femme; problems arise when we try to enforce femininity on people as a means of oppression."

http://www.yesmagazine.org/happiness/real-gender-equality-includes-femininity-and-the-color-pink-20180613

"It’s less about enforcing rigidly defined gender roles on boys and girls and more about straight-up misogyny. Anything regarded as 'feminine' is still seen by men and women alike as occupying a lower status."
http://www.yesmagazine.org/happiness/real-gender-equality-includes-femininity-and-the-color-pink-20180613

"The flip side of all of this is that we shame any boys (and, to a certain extent, girls) who participate in activities or behaviors that are seen as being more 'feminine'."
http://www.yesmagazine.org/happiness/real-gender-equality-includes-femininity-and-the-color-pink-20180613

"You can repair a bicycle, but not while wearing lipstick. Everyone knows that lipstick prevents people from being competent."
http://www.yesmagazine.org/happiness/real-gender-equality-includes-femininity-and-the-color-pink-20180613

Thériault, Anne. "Real Gender Equality Includes Femininity (and the Color Pink)." YES! Magazine. June 13, 2018.
#feminism
http://www.yesmagazine.org/happiness/real-gender-equality-includes-femininity-and-the-color-pink-20180613

I am planning on more frequently tooting passages from sources I'm reading and I am going to do so thus:

The *public* post will be reference information, comments, content notes, tags;

Interesting pull quotes/passages will be posted as comments in reply with a brief citation, so they are boostable. These will be reflective of things that can be considered in an edifying way, even if my personal opinion differs (a note may or may not indicate this).

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If we human beings are ever going to live in happiness and harmony with each other and with the natural world, we will have to rethink our economics — starting with downgrading the importance of economics in our thinking.

Buckminster Fuller: “The world doesn’t run on money. The grass doesn’t pay the clouds for the rain.”

http://donellameadows.org/archives/the-grass-doesnt-pay-the-clouds-for-the-rain/

#economics #environment

…nurturing and maintenance jobs hold the world together. Their social worth is inestimable. The women of Iceland made that point dramatically one day in 1975. All the women in the country, paid and unpaid, took a day off and gathered together for a discussion of women’s rights. In the words of one observer, “the wheels of society came to a screeching halt, and no one questioned the value of women’s work again.”

#feminism #domesticlabour #domesticlabor #systemsthinking

http://donellameadows.org/archives/thoughts-while-cleaning-the-living-room-domestic-work-is-undervalued-but-it-doesnt-need-to-be/

Daughter: Daddy, why don't you use the other three quarters of your brain?
Father: Oh, yes-that-you see the trouble is that I had school teachers too. And they filled up about a quarter of my brain with fog. And then I read newspapers and listened to what other people said, and that filled up another quarter with fog.
D: And the other quarter, Daddy?
F: Oh-that's fog that I made for myself when I was trying to think.
—"Metalogue: How Much Do You Know?" in G. Bateson, Steps to an Ecology of Mind.

[Re-post]
Looking at the data used for, this oft cited NPR piece, shows the representation of women in computing (in terms of educational attainment) is one that is specific to the field of computer science, as opposed to its parent discipline of mathematics. Also, particularly in the early days of computing, many participants were holders of Math or Engineering not CS degrees, so I wonder if the attrition situation is actually relatively worse than this data shows.

https://www.npr.org/sections/money/2014/10/21/357629765/when-women-stopped-coding