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Re:The dark side of open source conferences [about women bei... by sili on Friday December 03, 2010 @09:43AM (#1965939)
On the other side, the article mentions the double bind women are in: they are generally treated as "non-technical" and so need to use tricks to get others to pay attention to what they are saying, yet these trick that end up being interpreted as flirting and sexual advances.
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Re:The dark side of open source conferences [about women bei... by robg on Friday December 03, 2010 @09:49AM (#1965981)
My concern here is lumping flirting in with sexual advances. A big part of the problem is men see the first and assume the second, or worse, promiscuity. That's the bad path.
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