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Female IEEE members say they face significant discrimination in the workplace, including demeaning comments, inappropriate job-interview questions, and exclusion from networking events and important business meetings.
Those were among the most common negative experiences reported by more than 4,500 members—associate member grade and above—from around the world who answered a survey IEEE conducted in 2017. The results were released last year.
Almost half of those surveyed worked in academia, and about 30 percent were from private industry. The rest worked for governmental or nonprofit institutions, or were graduate students or self-employed. The majority of respondents (65 percent) lived outside the United States.
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(Score: 3, Insightful) by JNCF on Friday May 10 2019, @09:17PM (7 children)
Should ACs be allowed to submit stories? What about new accounts? If yes in either case, your proposal has no teeth (even if it were deemed desirable to reject the message based on the messenger).
(Score: 2) by acid andy on Friday May 10 2019, @10:53PM (2 children)
We could require a certain minimum level of karma to submit a story although honestly I think that would be less fair and balanced even than the current system. Some way to rank stories or for the community to vote for them or even an appeals process for rejected stories that the community can vote on are other ideas. I imagine it's very hard to get right.
If a cat has kittens, does a rat have rittens, a bat bittens and a mat mittens?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday May 13 2019, @06:16PM (1 child)
(Score: 2) by acid andy on Monday May 13 2019, @09:19PM
Yeah I'd prefer more submissions and more accepted submissions than fewer. The issue is with a perceived bias in what is currently being accepted and rejected. My idea of an appeals process for rejections would actually increase the number of stories if the community wants the rejections overturned.
If a cat has kittens, does a rat have rittens, a bat bittens and a mat mittens?
(Score: 2) by Azuma Hazuki on Friday May 10 2019, @10:55PM (3 children)
Actually, I lke that idea: no AC subs, and no subs from new accounts until they've been here for $TIME and have at least $NUM_KARMA. If this place is going to be community-driven, it needs to have a sustained userbase who have some skin in the game.
I am "that girl" your mother warned you about...
(Score: 0, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Friday May 10 2019, @11:19PM (1 child)
And the submission qualifies for your imprimatur, I guess you forgot to write. Why not expand that for the comments too. If enough people agree with you, you could have a most excellent site run for your enjoyment, by other people's efforts.
We've been doing fine before you came along. Plus, since the world is ending soon, I guess it won't matter anyway.
(Score: 2) by Azuma Hazuki on Friday May 10 2019, @11:29PM
Yeah, well, that's just, like, my opinion, maaaaaaaaaaaan :)
I am "that girl" your mother warned you about...
(Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday May 11 2019, @03:09PM
There you go, showed your true self, an authoritarian, intolerant, nazi-commie.