[Web4lib] Code4lib 2008 Minority Scholarship

[Janice Christopher]

The core issue is not the boorish behavior of a very few, but whether or not you're being paid the same salary you would receive if you were male. THAT'S what really matters in the end.

Go to the conference, learn, enjoy yourself, buy new friends a beer...regardless of their gender.  ;)

janice
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Janice Christopher
Catalog Management Librarian
Univ. of Connecticut
860.486.2636
janice.christopher at uconn.edu
 


> -----Original Message-----
> From: web4lib-bounces at webjunction.org
> [mailto:web4lib-bounces at webjunction.org]On Behalf Of Danielle Plumer
> Sent: Wednesday, December 19, 2007 3:05 PM
> To: web4lib at webjunction.org
> Subject: RE: [Web4lib] Code4lib 2008 Minority Scholarship
> 
> 
> 
> Like several others, it seems, I'm feeling just a wee bit 
> ashamed of myself for not contributing to this discussion. In 
> fact, I had been preparing a response (along the lines of 
> "why I'm going to attend Code4Lib") when one comment popped 
> up that made me feel physically ill:  
> 
> "One woman, free 'Happy Hour' at the Embassy Suites, and a nerd herd."
> 
> Tailhook '91, anyone? Or, if you're not old enough to 
> remember that one, think back to last year's Kathy Sierra 
> case. Maybe these things have killed my sense of humor. Or 
> maybe jokes like these just aren't funny.
> 
> Several of my (male) colleagues have said that C4L is the 
> best technical conference in libraryland. I had thought about 
> submitting a proposal to C4L, and I decided not to this year, 
> because I've never attended C4L and I wasn't sure that it was 
> the sort of conference that I'd want to be associated with 
> (though, frankly, I was thinking about this in terms of 
> scholarship rather than harassment). As of two days ago, I'd 
> have said that I was definitely planning to attend. Now, 
> though, I'm not too sure. And that's a shame.
> 
> 
> 
> Danielle Cunniff Plumer, Coordinator
> Texas Heritage Digitization Initiative
> Texas State Library and Archives Commission
> 512.463.5852 (phone) / 512.936.2306 (fax)
> dplumer at tsl.state.tx.us
> 
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