Klarinet Archive - Posting 001392.txt from 2000/04

From: "Emily S" <harvinet@-----.com>
Subj: Re: [kl] Gender bias - survey?
Date: Sun, 30 Apr 2000 18:27:14 -0400

Look, this doesn't have to be absolutely precise...who's publishing it?

>From: Anne Bell <bell@-----.net>
>Reply-To: klarinet@-----.org
>To: klarinet@-----.org
>Subject: Re: [kl] Gender bias - survey?
>Date: Sun, 30 Apr 2000 09:51:20 -0400
>
>I'm not sure how accurate such a compilation would be- even if we could
>identify all our members. At one time there was a sizeable gender gap in
>computer and internet usage. While in my personal life I've seen many more
>women of all ages beginning to become computer literate I'm not convinced
>that we're equally represented. Has anyone seen recent statistics?
>Best Wishes,
>Anne
>
>
>At 10:57 PM 4/29/00 EDT, you wrote:
> >Someone could keep track for a while of the postings, most are signed.
> >That would be some empirical data... Provided, of course, that we would
> >recognize which names were male and which female.
> >Paulette
> >("I Enjoy Being a Girl!") well, "old girl" at least
> >
> >On Sat, 29 Apr 2000 22:39:56 -0400 "Mark Charette" <charette@-----.org>
> >writes:
> >> From: "William Wright" <Bilwright@-----.net>>
> >> >I wonder, Mark, whether the membership of this list -- all of whom
> >> >presumably play clarinet -- is in fact more male or female?
> >>
> >> No way to know. The list is composed of relatively anonymous email
> >> addresses.
>
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