Tuesday, September 04, 2018

Snakes And Stuff


I found this old embroidery while looking for something else.  It's supposed to be a fallen angel and an experiment in different kinds of embroidery stitches.

Apologies for the poor quality of the photo.



And here's a snake applique.  I have made a lot of them, for some weird reason.

 







Like this one:








The above two are humongous in size, but I have several small ones, too.

This one I use as my gravatar in social media:



Monday, September 03, 2018

The Benefits of Gender Integration At Work


Last March I wrote about a study which demonstrates the benefits of gender integration at work:  It reduces sexist prejudices and increases equality between men and women.

If that is true, then the opposite might also be true:  Gender segregation allows those types of prejudices to thrive.  From that angle the sexism in the tech industry would not be exactly unexpected, because women are a small minority in the field.