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A 60 Minutes Story on Gender Equality Accidentally Proved the Persistence of Patriarchy (qz.com)
Over at Quartz, Ephrat Livni reports that a 60 Minutes story about gender equality accidentally proved the persistence of patriarchy. Reader theodp shares the report: Good intentions are nice, but they aren't enough, the TV news show 60 Minutes recently proved. The show's producers apparently meant well when they decided to do a segment on women in technology and the gender gap, which aired on March 4. But they ended up punching women in the gut, as the founder and CEO of Girls Who Code, Reshma Saujani, puts it in her response to the segment. Ultimately, 60 Minutes featured a man, Code.org CEO Hadi Partovi. His [tech-backed] organization's mission is to expand access to computer science education in schools.
Women technologists like Saujani who were tapped to appear on the show about a year ago and worked with producers to provide research and interviews, ended up on the cutting room floor while Partovi spoke on their behalf. Here is the cruel irony: As a result, 60 Minutes' segment was accidentally exceptionally effective-it proved that women in tech really can't catch a break. [...] Ayah Bdeir, the founder of STEM learning toy company littleBits, also responded to the episode in a Medium post. She noted that she worked with 60 Minutes for a year, planning interviews, providing research, talking to the producers and reporters, telling her story and that of her organization, which is focused on closing the gender gap in technology. Yet producers wrote to her last August to say that the focus of the segment had shifted and that littleBits would no longer be central in the story. In an email, a producer explained to her, 'It's not that the important points you made in your interview are ignored in the story, or that you didn't make them very effectively, they're just made by others'.
Women technologists like Saujani who were tapped to appear on the show about a year ago and worked with producers to provide research and interviews, ended up on the cutting room floor while Partovi spoke on their behalf. Here is the cruel irony: As a result, 60 Minutes' segment was accidentally exceptionally effective-it proved that women in tech really can't catch a break. [...] Ayah Bdeir, the founder of STEM learning toy company littleBits, also responded to the episode in a Medium post. She noted that she worked with 60 Minutes for a year, planning interviews, providing research, talking to the producers and reporters, telling her story and that of her organization, which is focused on closing the gender gap in technology. Yet producers wrote to her last August to say that the focus of the segment had shifted and that littleBits would no longer be central in the story. In an email, a producer explained to her, 'It's not that the important points you made in your interview are ignored in the story, or that you didn't make them very effectively, they're just made by others'.
Actually over here, the predominance of female nurses and teachers is increasingly seen as a social problem (especially regarding teachers), and we recently had some discussion on effecting affirmative action in those professions in order to get more men to sign up.
If construction was anything like programming, an incorrectly fitted lock would bring down the entire building...
There are plenty of programs to try to get more men in nursing (and teaching). Here is just the first Google result I found, but you can find plenty more: https://dailynurse.com/recruit...
Problems with gender equality? You mean like how Google found it was underpaying men? Seems these days that the media is purposefully gas lighting us...
Male nurses are highly sought after. Though I don't know what kind of incentive they have but if things stay the way they are now, a male nurse will never be without a job.
Besides diversity, one reason is purely physical. Nursing can require physical strength. That's especially true in psychiatry, where patients are often uncooperative. A burly man will be better off than a small woman. Not only when it comes to resisting physical aggression but also because even madmen may think twice before attacking someone twice their size.
It's ironic but not "proof of" patriarchy. Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar, and sometimes a redundant interview in a documentary piece is just a redundant interview. If there were five women and five men interviewed, and their inclusion were chosen by coin toss, with a man-heavy lopsided result, would that "prove" the patriarchy of coins? Of statistics?
This is not by any stretch of the imagination an article about tech. Please keep Slashdot on-topic.
Google Finds It’s Underpaying Many Men as It Addresses Wage Equity https://www.nytimes.com/2019/0...
He's not reading it as a personal attack - he's telling you exactly what is happening. You are too blind to see how correct he is...
How is laying out facts "responding to a personal attack"?
"There is more worth loving than we have strength to love." - Brian Jay Stanley
60 Minutes has a long history of bad journalism. They've been busted doing shit like filming different interview questions than the ones the interviewee is answering. They dress it up to look like good journalism, but just like the rest of them they just make shit up.
Socialism: a lie told by totalitarians and believed by fools.
This is pretty amazing that one accidentally proved something that is fictitious.
There is no such thing as patriarchy.
See Christina Hoff Sommers debunk all the nonsense of gender studies in the classroom.
This is also, by the way, the reasons many universities have made it against the rules or illegal to record their classes even for reference purposes the way you used to be able to.
Because they don't want it getting out what they are teaching to the students in various liberal arts classes.
We need to get liberalism out of colleges and put back rightful education. Stop turning our kids into liberal propaganda mouthpieces.
- Alex
Ironic.