Gender Inequality in Electronics

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Globemaker

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There is a common gender inequality for electronics products. People
who buy light bulbs prefer Edison bulbs over female invented bulbs. TV
sets designed by men like Farnsworth are purchased more than TV sets
invented by women. Computer transistor hardware is invented by men
like Shockley and Moore instead of female transistor types. The list
is large where examples of toasters, ovens, heaters, cars, airplanes,
nuclear generators, AC generators, motors, water pumps, tractors,
motorcycles made by men are preferred over those invented, designed,
and sold by females. Please consider purchasing airplanes invented by
women the next time you fly. Instead of the qwerty keyboard, buy
keyboards arranged by women. When you use an internet, use one
invented by women. When talking on a telephone, shun the Alexander
Grahm Bell type and use the female style telephones that are
advertised. Why should the Wright Brothers, Bells, Einsteins, and
Edisons be favored over the billions of female electronics and
technological producers? Is there some kind of logic to that gender
bias?
 
Globemaker wrote:
There is a common gender inequality for electronics products.
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YAWN.......................


--
You can't have a sense of humor, if you have no sense.
 
Globemaker laid this down on his screen :
There is a common gender inequality for electronics products. People
who buy light bulbs prefer Edison bulbs over female invented bulbs. TV
sets designed by men like Farnsworth are purchased more than TV sets
invented by women. Computer transistor hardware is invented by men
like Shockley and Moore instead of female transistor types. The list
is large where examples of toasters, ovens, heaters, cars, airplanes,
nuclear generators, AC generators, motors, water pumps, tractors,
motorcycles made by men are preferred over those invented, designed,
and sold by females. Please consider purchasing airplanes invented by
women the next time you fly. Instead of the qwerty keyboard, buy
keyboards arranged by women. When you use an internet, use one
invented by women. When talking on a telephone, shun the Alexander
Grahm Bell type and use the female style telephones that are
advertised. Why should the Wright Brothers, Bells, Einsteins, and
Edisons be favored over the billions of female electronics and
technological producers? Is there some kind of logic to that gender
bias?
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Tell us their names so we will know what to look for. :-?

--
John G.
 
On Nov 26, 2:45 am, John G <greent...@ozemail.com.au> wrote:
Tell us their names so we will know what to look for. :-?

--
John G.
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Why do electronics companies exclude women from their founding
members? Why did not technology companies start with names like this?
Hewlett Packard Susan
Perkin Elmer Kathy
Pratt and Whitney and Heather
Jobs Wozniak and Mary
Queen of England Radar Company
Hughes and Daughters Tool Co.
Delilah Inc.
Ruth Westinghouse
Tessy Tesla Motors

When will women get the courage to sue for what they deserve and get
named with their peers?
This injustice should be retroactively cured. Is there some kind of
genetic difference between men and women that has left women without
the intelligence to invent electronic devices? Or are they treated
unfairly when companies are named? Are they kept out of colleges and
ignored for promotions that would put them in the laboratories and
offices where the progress is going on today? This gender bias is
institutionalized and cannot be changed without a concentrated effort
by the brightest women of today. Please, if you are a women, invent
something profound like anti-gravity, cold fusion, low leakage
semiconductors, thousand year memory electronics, magnetic bicycles,
lightning collectors, or high temperature electronic systems to work
on the Sun.
 
Globemaker wrote:

(...)

When will women get the courage to sue for what they deserve and get
named with their peers?
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Worry not. They've received some recognition, however
insufficient. Someday Rosalind Franklin's contribution
to the decoding of DNA will be as well known as is
Watson and Crick's, for example.

I still think Hedy Lamarr's frequency-hopping
communications layer is very cool.

http://inventors.about.com/library/inventors/bllamar.htm

http://inventors.about.com/od/womeninventors/a/women_inventors.htm
http://www.women-inventors.com/


--Winston
 
On 2011-11-26, John G <greentest@ozemail.com.au> wrote:
Tell us their names so we will know what to look for. :-?
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I suspect that's the whole point of the sarcastic article.
 
On Fri, 25 Nov 2011 21:52:50 -0800, Globemaker wrote:

There is a common gender inequality for electronics products.
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People buy products:

(a) because they have a perceived need.

(b) because they fulfil the required function.

As to the gender, race, nationality, or hat size of whoever invented them,
they don't give a rat' ass. Why should they?


--
"For a successful technology, reality must take precedence
over public relations, for nature cannot be fooled."
(Richard Feynman)
 
On Sat, 26 Nov 2011 17:07:19 +0000 (UTC), Kaz Kylheku <kaz@kylheku.com> wrote:

On 2011-11-26, John G <greentest@ozemail.com.au> wrote:
Tell us their names so we will know what to look for. :-?

I suspect that's the whole point of the sarcastic article.
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You suspect that there *was* a point?
 
On Sat, 26 Nov 2011 02:55:39 -0800 (PST), Globemaker
<alanfolmsbee@cabanova.com> wrote:

On Nov 26, 2:45 am, John G <greent...@ozemail.com.au> wrote:

Tell us their names so we will know what to look for. :-?

--
John G.

Why do electronics companies exclude women from their founding
members? Why did not technology companies start with names like this?
Hewlett Packard Susan
Perkin Elmer Kathy
Pratt and Whitney and Heather
Jobs Wozniak and Mary
Queen of England Radar Company
Hughes and Daughters Tool Co.
Delilah Inc.
Ruth Westinghouse
Tessy Tesla Motors

When will women get the courage to sue for what they deserve and get
named with their peers?
This injustice should be retroactively cured. Is there some kind of
genetic difference between men and women that has left women without
the intelligence to invent electronic devices?
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It's a different kind of intelligence. My wife is very intelligent but
no good with electricity or mechanics. She's a superb speech
pathologist. Speech Pathology is a profession that is literally 98%
female.

There are lots of female scientists and programmers and managers, but
very few electronic circuit designers. I don't think it's an
institutional issue.

John
 
On Sat, 26 Nov 2011 17:10:49 -0600, "krw@att.bizzzzzzzzzzzz"
<krw@att.bizzzzzzzzzzzz> wrote:

On Sat, 26 Nov 2011 17:07:19 +0000 (UTC), Kaz Kylheku <kaz@kylheku.com> wrote:

On 2011-11-26, John G <greentest@ozemail.com.au> wrote:
Tell us their names so we will know what to look for. :-?

I suspect that's the whole point of the sarcastic article.

You suspect that there *was* a point?
Maybe the dude got henpecked nearly to death over Thanksgiving
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Holiday.
It may be his way of healing.
BTW: I always use Madame Curie's product in my DeLorean DMC-12.

Tom
 
On Sat, 26 Nov 2011 02:55:39 -0800, Globemaker wrote:

Please, if you are a women, invent something profound like
anti-gravity, cold fusion, low leakage semiconductors, thousand year
memory electronics, magnetic bicycles, lightning collectors, or high
temperature electronic systems to work on the Sun.
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Most of which are pie-in-the-sky fantasies, at odds with the laws of
physics.

--
"For a successful technology, reality must take precedence
over public relations, for nature cannot be fooled."
(Richard Feynman)
 
On 2011-11-27, Fred Abse <excretatauris@invalid.invalid> wrote:
On Sat, 26 Nov 2011 02:55:39 -0800, Globemaker wrote:

Please, if you are a women, invent something profound like
anti-gravity, cold fusion, low leakage semiconductors, thousand year
memory electronics, magnetic bicycles, lightning collectors, or high
temperature electronic systems to work on the Sun.

Most of which are pie-in-the-sky fantasies, at odds with the laws of
physics.
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Thousand year memory is here: just program a CNC to carve the data into a stone
tablet. :)
 
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Tom Biasi wrote:

BTW: I always use Madame Curie's product in my DeLorean DMC-12.
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Yeah, but how was she at long division?



mike
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On Sun, 27 Nov 2011 19:48:07 +0000, Kaz Kylheku wrote:

On 2011-11-27, Fred Abse <excretatauris@invalid.invalid> wrote:
On Sat, 26 Nov 2011 02:55:39 -0800, Globemaker wrote:

Please, if you are a women, invent something profound like
anti-gravity, cold fusion, low leakage semiconductors, thousand year
memory electronics, magnetic bicycles, lightning collectors, or high
temperature electronic systems to work on the Sun.

Most of which are pie-in-the-sky fantasies, at odds with the laws of
physics.

Thousand year memory is here: just program a CNC to carve the data into a stone
tablet. :)
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Who needs a CNC? I got a hammer and chisel ;-)

--
"For a successful technology, reality must take precedence
over public relations, for nature cannot be fooled."
(Richard Feynman)
 
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