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Shaun Ellis <[log in to unmask]> > Hi Rosalyn, > I agree that we should encourage women to step up and mentor other women > at Code4Lib. I also see the pairing of women mentors with women mentees > as fitting into an overall mentorship program, and I would be interested > in collaborating with you and others to help frame it out. I think pairing would need to be done pretty carefully and I'm not sure that only pairing women with women, for example, would be a good thing. Even ignoring my belief that it would be sexist, it could cause practical problems by creating a feedback loop: fewer women in the community probably means fewer women mentors available for women learners, leading to slower promotion of women into the community. Hope that explains, -- MJ Ray (slef), member of www.software.coop, a for-more-than-profit co-op. http://koha-community.org supporter, web and library systems developer. In My Opinion Only: see http://mjr.towers.org.uk/email.html Available for hire (including development) at http://www.software.coop/