The amount of sweat and blood that I put into making NeurIPS a conference we could attend without being sexually harassed and face rampant racism, both things I had experienced there, and I had seen a difference.
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The amount of sweat and blood that I put into making NeurIPS a conference we could attend without being sexually harassed and face rampant racism, both things I had experienced there, and I had seen a difference. It was so much better thanks to all of our work. I’m not there this year but the number of things I’m seeing being discussed and some of the stuff I’ve heard from friends who attended makes me feel like it’s back to same old.
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Irene Zhangreplied to Timnit Gebru (she/her) last edited by
@timnitGebru @sharon is actually working with a psychologist that studies conference harassment. We started an initiative quite a few years ago to measure harassment and discrimination at CS conferences but never managed to get much traction at ACM conferences. https://www.csclimatesurvey.org
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@timnitGebru @sharon we presented our initial results from USENIX conferences and want to eventually create a CoC and reporting system to reduce these behaviors. https://github.com/iyzhang/superhero-network/blob/main/initial-results.pdf
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Timnit Gebru (she/her)replied to Irene Zhang last edited by
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Irene Zhangreplied to Timnit Gebru (she/her) last edited by
@timnitGebru @sharon I eventually stopped doing it because it was so disheartening. In particular, we went to ACM with the survey and said, we have money and infrastructure and we’ll do all the work, we just want you to send this to all the SIGs. They responded: actually can you put together a completely different survey that just counts the number of minorities at ACM conferences?
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@irene @timnitGebru @sharon after that meeting, I looked into the ACM DEI council and its budget, and, well, you probably won't be surprised by the results.
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@irene @timnitGebru @sharon Oh, and let's not forget the part where, when we did run the survey at an ACM conference, they put together a survey of their own and told people to take it instead "because it'll take only 2 minutes and doesn't ask any uncomfortable questions"
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