And yet I’ve come to understand from the many responses I have received to my email about resigning, this sexist structure is often subtly inherent in many areas of our academic community.With this change in management structure, my role was noticeably marginalized, while ironically, Project Olympus, and all its programs, became a major part of the new Center. What might have previously been considered unconscious sexism became blatant.Just one example: The LaunchCMU conferences, initiated under the CIE, continue. And while sexual harassment and sexism in the workplace are related, neither is acceptable in a university or elsewhere. In support of this goal, she founded the Women@SCS program at CMU, which provided both mentoring and outreach opportunities for women in computer science. But while I helped plan the six earlier launches (all with women on the program), under the auspices of the new Center I was given a copy of the Fall 2016 program for the seventh launch a single day before it was to go to press. Blum was born to a Jewish family in New York City, where her mother was a science teacher.At CMU, she took the philosophy that the low numbers of women majoring in computer science were in part caused by a vicious cycle: because there were few women, the women in computer science had fewer support networks (such as friends in the same major to help them with coursework) than men. Many thanked me and wrote about their own stories, in poetry and prose. If someone in my position says, “I’ve experienced these micro-aggressions, and it became serious enough for me to resign,” others may be able to point to that to help their grievances to be taken seriously. After I complained to the Provost that it was an all-male program, I was given one day to recruit some female speakers. This letter might have been long forgotten except that it has recently been reprinted on page 72 of the Instead of the then-popular approach of changing the curriculum to be more application-centric in the hope of attracting women, she pushed to maintain a traditional computer science program but to change the culture surrounding the program to be more welcoming.
Many women in the workforce feel vulnerable. In 2018 he and his wife Lenore resigned from Carnegie Mellon University to protest against sexism after a change in management structure of Project Olympus led to sexist treatment of her as director and the exclusion of other women from project activities. Attempts to point them out label you a complainer or “difficult.”Recently, the former CDC director was arrested for an allegation of “groping.” Physical acts like this are now being discussed and in some workplaces addressed. This corporate model, with a CEO-like position holding almost complete control and being the face of the Center and CMU’s entrepreneurship on and off campus, enables wanton abuse of power given bad actors at the helm. And because these factors made being a computer scientist less pleasant and more difficult for the women, fewer women chose to major in computer science. Yet another example of how sexism can creep into academia: as CMU’s business incubator became more prestigious, its female founder’s role became marginalized. Read an interview with Dr. Blum in NEXT Pittsburgh: Lenore Blum shocked the community with her sudden resignation from CMU. The model of computationdeveloped in the following decades, th… They’ll remember next year that balance matters.The following spring, I was shown the program for the next launch event 37 minutes before it was published. Lenore Blum Resigns Professor Lenore Blum resigned this past August, citing sexism in the workplace as the reason for her resignation. But what action is taken for complaints of:All of this needs addressing. It affects women’s ability to move forward and invent our future.
(Editor’s note: Andrew Moore resigned from his position as Dean of the School of Computer Science in late August at the end of his four-year commitment. Here she tells us why. I was able to create the Women@SCS program and I am proud that our undergraduate Computer Science program now has near gender parity, way ahead of the rest of the nation. But we can’t whitewash the more pervasive, and no less damaging effect of sexism in the workplace We have been overwhelmed by support from colleagues, including SCS Dean Andrew Moore who has backed me all the way.