[AISWorld] University of Melbourne - LECTURER (5 Positions; Female Applicants Only)

[Walden, Eric]

There is a problem with this strategy.  Only 20% of IT people are female.
This trend starts in about 8th grade and continues through undergraduate,
graduate and PhD level education.   I recently took my daughter to a
computer camp and she was one of only a handful of girls. Her friend when
to a different computer camp in a different state and again was the only
girl.  If you have 22% then you are equilibrium.   Getting to 30% requires
stealing someone else¹s and causes inequity elsewhere.   You are not
actually solving the problem, you are just rearranging inequity.   What
you should do is work on your undergraduate enrollments.  To do that you
will have to go down into the pre college schools with programs like Girls
Who Code.   

Your heart is in the right place, we need 50% female IT people.  However,
your solution is not sustainable or equitable, because you are just moving
people.  What you and all of us need is a concerted effort to get high
school and younger girls interested.  When we have 50% females in our
undergraduate computer science and IT majors then it will be easy to get
50% into graduate programs and professorships.  But in the absence of
equitable distribution of IT education we cannot have an equitable
distribution of IT faculty.

I am not discouraging you from proceeding with your plan, I am simply
saying that if you want to solve the actual problem, rather than just move
it to another university, then you are focusing on the wrong level.  We
all are.  We all need to focus on the kids.

-- 
Eric Walden
Director of the Texas Tech Neuroimaging Institute
Director of Data Science Programs and James C. Wetherbe Professor
Rawls College of Business
703 Flint Avenue
Texas Tech University
806-834-1925
eric.walden at ttu.edu
http://ericwalden.net <http://ericwalden.net/>






On 3/14/18, 1:29 AM, "AISWorld on behalf of Uwe Aickelin"
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>Dear Colleagues,
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>International Women¹s Day provided us with the opportunity to reflect
>upon the diversity within our School. The Melbourne School of Engineering
>has 182 women academic staff, but this represents just 22 per cent of our
>total academic numbers. We are committed to remedying this imbalance and
>lifting the representation of women to 30 per cent by 2022.
>
>
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>To help enact this change, I¹m pleased to announce five new continuing
>positions that we are making available to women of exceptional calibre,
>in all fields of engineering, computing and information systems. The five
>positions are across the School and we are accepting applications from
>all related areas. To view complete position descriptions, click
>here<https://na01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fjobs.
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>These positions are a key component of a broad suite of programs we have
>implemented at MSE that are aimed at increasing the recruitment,
>retention and promotion of women.
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>Successful appointees will be given the opportunity to play a significant
>role in realising the industry engagement targets of MSE 2025, develop
>internationally recognised research portfolios, establish funding streams
>to support these portfolios, and to enhance interdisciplinary research
>within and outside the University, whilst contributing to teaching and
>curriculum development within MSE. Applications for part-time or other
>flexible working arrangements will be welcomed and will be fully
>considered subject to meeting the inherent requirements of the position.
>
>Close date: 8 Apr 2018
>
>Uwe Aickelin
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