>"1) when have you actually encountered sexism as a man outside some women's club meeting? " I've done work at various charities, lunch lines for the homeless,

>"1) when have you actually encountered sexism as a man outside some women's club meeting? " I've done work at various charities, lunch lines for the homeless, etc... What I've seen in the US is many, many shelters and other charities that will accept women and families but not single men, and I've never even seen one that refuses single women while accepting single men. This is despite the fact that the overwhelming majority of the homeless in the country are men. Whether a person goes in engineering or marketing isn't nearly as important as whether or not a person has food and shelter. Disappointingly, I regularly see high traffic blog postings and news articles about the sex imbalances in CS, and rarely see any concern about those in our charities. I can't help but suspect that if a city somehow did have charities that discriminated in the opposite direction that it would be headline news.