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Re: [Eligibility-discuss] [Gendispatch] New Version Notification for draft-knodel-nomcom-gender-representation-00.txt

Eric Rescorla <ekr@rtfm.com> Thu, 23 November 2023 17:19 UTC

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Date: Thu, 23 Nov 2023 09:18:45 -0800
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Subject: Re: [Eligibility-discuss] [Gendispatch] New Version Notification for draft-knodel-nomcom-gender-representation-00.txt
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On Wed, Nov 22, 2023 at 10:45 PM Michael StJohns <msj@nthpermutation.com>
wrote:

>
> We pick randomly, and with the exception of the 2 person per org limit,
> any volunteer has an equal weight in being selected.  If you believe
> some group is underrepresented in the pool, the solutions is to recruit
> members of that group to volunteer.
>

There are two distinct issues:

1. Whether women are sufficiently represented in the nomcom selection pool.
2. Whether women are sufficiently represented in a given nomcom.

As Christian (and I earlier) noted, because the nomcom itself is quite
small,
it is possible for women to be very underrepresented in a given nomcom
with respect to the underlying pool. You may believe that's not an issue,
but to the extent to which it is an issue, I don't think "try to get more
women
into the pool" is a plausible response to that issue.

-Ekr

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