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diff --git a/prez.slides b/prez.slides @@ -66,9 +66,7 @@ Directly for the abstract "I understand thinking of feminism is confusing for PL people, trust me, it did not come naturally to me either! I thought feminism was just about gender. How can gender, of all things, play a role in programming language design?" - - -› Le féminisme comme outil de réflexion critique +› Feminism as a critical thinking tool "I understand thinking of feminism is confusing for PL people, trust me, it did not come naturally to me either! I thought feminism was just about gender. How @@ -82,7 +80,7 @@ Carey, Mark, M. Jackson, Alessandro Antonello, and Jaclyn Rushing. Environmental Change Research.” Progress in Human Geography 40, no. 6 (December 1, 2016): 770–93. https://doi.org/10.1177/0309132515623368. -› Le féminisme comme outil de réflexion critique +› Feminism as a critical thinking tool Feminism Can Help Question Values and Priorities of Programming Languages @@ -98,14 +96,14 @@ Feminism takes into account how discrimination across many different social and Feminism Is For Everyone -› La thèse +› The paper's thesis "Diversity in both the design of PL and the demographics of the community are limited because of the dominant culture that prioritizes theory and formalism over people and social impact." -› The papers thesis +› The paper's thesis "Diversity in both the design of PL and the demographics of the community are limited because of the dominant culture that prioritizes theory and @@ -114,6 +112,10 @@ Feminism Is For Everyone The goal here is not to argue the dominant culture is intrisequely bad or that it produces bad research. + "This essay will not answer, but raise questions about how we can make the + field inclusive of more types of research, and more types of people, + including all genders." + › Structure 1. PL domain is not very diverse @@ -134,6 +136,104 @@ The authors provide statistics and anecdotes backed up by feminist litterature to argue for each of those points. I feel a strong will to convince their peers this is a worthwile endeavour. +› PL domain is not very diverse + +"Only 10% of CS papers are authored by women" + +Girls are less likely to enter out-of-shcool programming clubs + +"Girls feel that the cannot enter the world of computers without endangering +their sens of feminity" (which the rest of society pushes on them) + +In maths "research has sound teachers view girls as successful [..] thanks to +their hard work, while they believe boy's success comes from their talent." + +› PL domain is not very diverse + +PL domain historically was, and still is, largely western + => by default only 0..9 numerals + ١+١ won't work + +Most people are not visually impaired + => "system.cout>> reads "system <pause> c out greater than greater than" in + screen readers" + +› Gendered Science and Knowledge + +PL was made silmutaneously mathematical and masculine + + * At first an unsually feminine line of work + * With more complex architectures and automation came formalisation and + prestige* + * Now considered a domain that " requires vast mental powers, a kind of genius + with formalism akin to that of the mathematician" + +*Very well documented via the "Humble Programmer" speech of Dijkstra +› Gendered Science and Knowledge + +Traditionnaly valued : + + * Complex maths* + * Research on language features + * Building tools + * Quantitative methods + * Research that is "difficult" + +Less valued : + + * Use of said tools + * Qualitative methods + * A will to broaden research topics + +* "a senior academic jokingly say that a paper was rejected because ‘it did +not have enough Greek letters for POPL’" + +› Gendered Science and Knowledge + + "We are robbing ourselves of a place for conversations on the different + perspectives on the ways people use with programming languages." +› Systems of Scientific Domination + +Structural domination through norms + * Guidelines for conferences usually don't explain + what constitutes a good qualitative work + * Without the right tools reviewers are incentivize to place these kind of + works out of scope + * Change in norms have to come through the community but people who are + influential enough to do it are usually there because they upheld those + norms themselves + +Interpersonal domination + People with less mainstream research topics, methodologies or a non + majority identity (e.g being a black women) spend (conference) time : + + * answering entry level questions + * doing "diversity work" + + instead of seizing opportunities to learn and build connections about their + scientific interests + +› Knowledge production + +History of PL mainly retains man (although less in recent history) + builders + +This lens omits the perspectives of maintainers, teachers, advocates or critics. + +› Knowledge production + +Our biases go as deep as informing what even counts as a PL + + "A recent paper that investigated how to best teach programming to people + in the prison system describes a struggle to install the right software to + do so. When at their conference presentation they were asked why they did + not consider Excel (which in addition to formulas includes a VBA + interpreter), which was available, the audience burst out in laughter." + +› Alternative representations + + + › Further reading and watching Ensmenger's paper on the genesis of masculine archetypes in IT (the hacker, the