Getting rid of inappropriate presentations is the most important thing?

Getting rid of inappropriate presentations is the most important thing?

Posted Feb 25, 2010 10:08 UTC (Thu) by epa (subscriber, #39769)
Parent article: SCALE 8x: Moving the needle

This sounds a little odd:

In particular, if you could "change the audience at these events" such that it was 100 women and 100 men, she believed that inappropriate presentations would naturally fall by the wayside.

It makes it sound as though the most important thing is a campaign against porny PowerPoint, and getting more female programmers is just a means to that end?

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Getting rid of inappropriate presentations is the most important thing?

Posted Feb 25, 2010 19:00 UTC (Thu) by cry_regarder (subscriber, #50545) [Link]

I read it as saying "We don't need to spend a lot of brain power on this one...it will handle itself when the gender balance is reached."

Cry