Re: 'Geek' image scares women away from tech industry ? The Register

[Hector <[e-mail]>]

Hector wrote:
> Monique Morrow wrote:
>> One of the points I discussed in NYC last week was also the role of media
>> and what is depicted in film, TV and so on wrt girls-women, a topic of 
>> the
>> Miss Representation initiative:
>>
>> http://www.missrepresentation.org/
>>
>> Monique
> 
> My young artist daughter depicted the woman dilemma in her well 
> received, career advancing gallery showing painting:
> 
>    http://www.jaclynsantos.com/images/large/g.jpg
> 

Here is Jaclyn's view on this topic:

       http://www.jaclynsantos.com/statement.html

   "I FEEL that contemporary American society places an unattainable
    amount of expectations on women; cinematography in particular
    often creates "superwomen" who are unnaturally beautiful, smart,
    talented, successful, and sexually gifted. However, due to time 
constraints
    as well as genetically determined physical and mental limitations, no
    real woman could ever possibly achieve equality with these
    fictitious idols.

    While women have always been my chosen subject matter, I feel that
    my work simultaneously functions as a more general commentary on the
    dominant isolationist spirit of modern American culture. This is 
why I
    typically paint the figures by themselves. I prefer to place them
    within their own environments to emphasize their isolation."


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