On 06/12/12 09:05, Sara Amato wrote:
> I'd been staying out of this discussion, but the thought occurs to me that someone with access to the list of subscribers might run that against a list of traditional boy/girl names, and be able to make some guesses….
That idea runs into problems both with non-western names (there is more
than one kind of diversity) and those people whose experience of gender
in the workplace have led them to use non-gender-specific identifiers.
cheers
stuart
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Stuart Yeates
Library Technology Services http://www.victoria.ac.nz/library/
Received on Wed Dec 05 2012 - 15:46:34 EST