[Gendergap] The Dell Summit

Dell held their annual summit this week in Europe. They hired a moderator for the opening day named Mads Christensen who is a media personality that is described as "very conservative" and this also is regarding his views towards women. Excerpts from a blog by a woman who attended: " So here I am at Dell's huge and very professional summit with founder Michael Dell, top people from Microsoft and Intel, impressive power points, expensive commercials, matching polyester ties and all that jazz, and then the -- by Dell chosen -- moderator starts to rejoice the lack of women in the room. /"The IT business is one of the last frontiers that manages to keep women out. The quota of women to men in your business is sound and healthy"/ he says. /"What are you actually doing here?"/ he adds to the few women who are actually present in the room./" "/ Dell's moderator continues talking about his two Rolex watches and he then presents the next speaker from Intel. After the break Mads Christensen shares with us his whole "show" about the bitchy women who want's to steal the power in politics, boards and the home. "Science" he calls it and mentions that all the great inventions come from men. /"We can thank women for the rolling pin"/ he adds. And then the moderator of the day finishes of by asking all (men) in the room to promise him that they will go home and say "Shut up bitch!"." http://elektronista.dk/kommentar/dresscode-blue-tie-and-male/ I feel sick to my stomach. -Sarah -- *Sarah Stierch* */Wikimedia Foundation Community Fellow/* <https://donate.wikimedia.org/><<