Python is an Equal Opportunity Programming Language

[Ethan Furman]

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.

And it is far more equal opportunity than having 25 males ask questions 
and only one or two females.

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~Ethan~