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Discuss historical injustice to women in popgen computing #193

Closed jeromekelleher closed 3 years ago

jeromekelleher commented 3 years ago

one comment here-- i think it would be fitting to include this reference (https://doi.org/10.1534/genetics.118.301277) which highlights the ways in which the contributions of women to population genetics have been minimized through history

See changes merged in #192 for background

_Originally posted by @andrewkern in https://github.com/tskit-dev/msprime-1.0-paper/pull/192#discussion_r706346917_

jeromekelleher commented 3 years ago

I think a good introduction to our paragraph on acknowledging our gender skew would be to start with a sentence citing the above paper. Something like

Women played a central role in the early development of computational population genetics, but their contributions were marginalised [cite paper]. While [things aren't quite this bad any more], it is important to acknowledge that...

What do we think?

agladstein commented 3 years ago

Sounds good to me

petrelharp commented 3 years ago

Also sounds good to me, although I don't think we need to say the "things are quite this bad any more" bit.

jeromekelleher commented 3 years ago

Sure, this is a very crude first pass, just trying to get the basic idea for comments

andrewkern commented 3 years ago

Agreed, sounds good.