[CIMC-work] us-imc update, acorn collective

[Ian Bicking]

On Mar 13, 2004, at 5:04 PM, ChrisGeovanis at aol.com wrote:
> huh. interesting. i note for the record that acorn is ... all dudes! 
> can't tell how gender diversity is going at eggplant, but they have 
> some really interesting clients. i think it's great that people want 
> to create worker-run companies that self hire as a strategy for techs 
> with a progressive bent to pay the rent. i'm not necessarily seeing 
> the imc thing here, however...

As far as I can tell there's only like one global tech person who is 
female (though often I don't know what people's genders are).  It tends 
to be the same in most tech situations.  For whatever reason women 
aren't inclined to programming and system administration -- content 
production, graphic design, and support all have more women in them 
(but still not 50/50).  But if Acorn isn't doing much of those things 
(or if those are all non-core concerns), then it's not surprising it's 
all men.  Really, this isn't because of any discrimination (or if it 
is, it's the vague society's-expectations kind of discrimination).  And 
if Acorn wants to get shit done (the noblest goal for any progressive 
group!) they need to think more about their specific goals than about 
abstract structural critiques.  (It's abstract because the critique is 
only demographic, not based on any specific claim of discrimination on 
their part)

   Ian