Diversity Thursday

Is it patronizing, insulting, or just pathetic?

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Subject: FW: Network of ED Women (NEW)

All

Please forward to your mentor groups and the ED Options in these regions. Thanks.
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The Diversity Working Group will be hosting a get-together and break-out sessions for EDs at two upcoming conferences:

Academy Women Spring Leadership Summit
17 April 2010, San Diego, CA (EDs will host a Friday night social prior to the event 16 April ~ 1700 and break-out session the morning of 17 April)

Sea Service Leader Association Women's Leadership Summit
2-3 June 2010, Washington, DC (ED break-out session will be the afternoon of June 3rd)

Focus will be on women's issues, but all are invited!

Please visit the NEW Network of ED Women site on NKO for more detailed information and links to conference websites for registration: https://wwwa.nko.navy.mil/portal/edo/home/networkofEDwomen

We welcome your feedback!
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Very respectfully,
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Being that - let me see, my sources tell me - there are about 10 "ED Women" - I would call this patronizing in the extreme - even if there were 1,000.

Of note - ED in Navy talk in Engineering Duty - and be very careful going to the NKO link in the message unless you are using a Windows computer using Internet Explorer. If you are, ahem, using a Mac PowerPC chip powered laptop with Safari - it will force you to restart your computer. Typical Navy IT FOD - almost as bad as the CHART website. Lowest bidder, indeed.

And Skippy - feel free to make a joke about an organization calling itself "ED Women."

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UPDATE: Very good overview of the difference between diversity (good) and Diversity (bad) by MIDN Withington over at USNIBlog.