Python is an Equal Opportunity Programming Language

[alex wright]

It seems like it would be equal opportunity between sexes.  1:1 opportunity
to ask based on apparent sex.  It is not equal representation necessarily.
On May 6, 2016 5:53 PM, "beliavsky--- via Python-list" <
python-list at python.org> wrote:

> On Friday, May 6, 2016 at 5:07:28 PM UTC-4, Ethan Furman wrote:
> > On 05/06/2016 01:35 PM, beliavsky--- via Python-list wrote:
> >
> > > Most of [Guido's] keynote at that conference was answering questions
> from
> >  > the people who had attended. And he actually said, "Let's alternate
> > between
> >  > men and women asking questions."On the second day of the conference,
> > he was
> >  > wearing a shirt from PyLadies, another nonprofit like Django Girls
> > that helps
> >  > women learn how to program on Python.
> > >
> > > *********************************************************
> > >
> > > This not "equal opportunity". It is a quota system.
> >
> > It's a corrective action, a way of getting men accustomed to listening
> > to women and hearing good ideas and questions from them, and a way to
> > accustom women to speaking in (currently) male dominated groups.
>
> It's silly to say that just because a group is over-represented that it
> "dominates". If a conference has more Asians than whites does that
> necessarily make it Asian-dominated?
>
> > And it is far more equal opportunity than having 25 males ask questions
> > and only one or two females.
>
> Not if there are 25 males with questions and only one or two females with
> questions. Among the people who have questions, you could choose randomly.
> You and Terry Reedy misuse the term "equal opportunity".
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