[Metalab] Frauen im Metalab

[Thomas Steinbrenner]

Ich glaub darauf gibt’s nur eine Antwort: Leider noch nicht genug!

 

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Ich organisiere das Hack Your Sexuality. Da geht es zwar grundsätzlich um Sexualität, aber es sind explizit alle Geschlechter (inkl. selbst erfundene) erwünscht. Insofern bin ich auch darum bemüht einen Safe-Space zu schaffen.

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Veranstaltungen, zumindestens von weiblichen Mitgliedern organisiert und die mir spontan einfallen, sind:

Die Leserunde README https://metalab.at/wiki/README.txt (Isis)

Die Bastelgruppe All Needles https://metalab.at/wiki/All_Needles (Gabi, Jasmin, Kay)

Die Fotolabor-Treffen https://metalab.at/wiki/Fotolab (Maria)

 

Ansonsten hat leider 4lex recht, dass es Mz Baltazar's Laboratory gab, was jetzt aber leider woanders stattfindet.

 

Falls du allerdings selbst etwas veranstalten willst: Zumindestens ich würde mich darüber freuen und meine Partnerin wahrscheinlich auch ^^

 

Liebe Grüße,

Thomas

 

From: Metalab [mailto:metalab-bounces at lists.metalab.at] On Behalf Of ???
Sent: Mittwoch, 26. Juni 2013 22:08
To: Metalab General Discussion List
Subject: [Metalab] Frauen im Metalab

 

Gibt es reguläre Events/Meetings für weibliche Mitglieder bzw. Besucher des Metalabs?

lg, B

Anstoss vom http://blackse.wordpress.com/2013/06/16/if-i-can-do-it-so-can-you/

Feeling insecure…

Carrying out research for a PhD in computer science and going to academic conferences I was very much in a minority as a woman. The ratio was around 2:8 female to male, or lower, and sometimes this made things a bit uncomfortable. I remember going to one conference where, after being told by my supervisor that I needed to network at conferences, I approached a couple of guys during a break to discuss the previous session. I plucked up courage and said something friendly about the last speaker to start a conversation with them. They looked me up and down, and then started talking to each other as if I hadn’t said anything. I stood there feeling really silly, realized after about thirty seconds that they were going to continue to ignore me, and then walked away feeling absolutely mortified.

I had a few other encounters similar to this, and of course some good ones too, but I never felt completely at ease in that type of situation. That was until I went to a conference in Brussels for women in science. This time there were about one hundred women and two men. As I walked into the conference room and stood looking around wondering where to go and sit, a woman came over and started talking to me. We had a great chat and joined a conversation with some other women, probably about why we were at the conference and what we hoped to get out of it. What an amazing difference. I met some truly amazing, inspiring and supportive women. That conference changed my life.

I had thought that it was me, and my lack of social skills, that was preventing me from enjoying academic life to the full. Now I realized that wasn’t the case.

 

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