The theme forInternational Women’s Day 2022(IWD) is #BreakTheBias, a global call to action that asks us all to take action and level the playing field. Whether intentional or unconscious, bias can make it difficult for women (trans, cis, femmes), nonbinary and gender-non-conforming folks to get ahead in life. Discrimination affects all industries, including the open movement.
At Creative Commons, we believe openness can enhance the efficiency and effectiveness in life and business, while also making social processes more democratic, fostering diversity, promoting civil society engagement, including contributions from marginalized and underrepresented communities and groups. That’s why it is key that we, in the open movement, ensure we are centering gender equity in all our work, making it a matter of concern and action, so that we can truly break the bias.
Ahead of IWD on Tuesday 8 March, we took a look back to our ‘Women in Open’ panel from CC Global Summit 2021 to bring to the forefront inspirational words from some awesome women breaking through the barriers and working to make the internet and our global culture more open and collaborative.
CC is launching an open call to the CC Community for nominations of women, nonbinary and gender-non-conforming folks to be considered for profile features on the CC Blog.提名你自己或你认为社区应该认识的人。
The conversation was moderated byDelia Browne, CC Board Member and National Copyright Director, National Copyright Unit (Australia). On the panel, we hadLila Bailey, Senior Policy Counsel for theInternet Archive,Kaitlin Thaney, Executive Director ofInvest in Open Infrastructure, andJennie Rose Halperin, Executive Director ofLibrary Futures.
Here’s an excerpt from the conversation, where Delia asked the panelists about their women role models.Watch the full panel discussion here.
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Delia:Because we’re here celebrating the women of Creative Commons, and this has been a wonderful thing that we’ve been doing for the past few summits — who is your woman idol or mentor, that you’d want to pay respect to?
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Lila:So Delia, for me, you are like my most obvious answer. I just feel when I was back in the day, you took me under your wing and were just so welcoming and taught me so much not only about how it works in Australia, but how Creative Commons works as a global network. And just really your friendship and your openness… and you’re just like telling it how it is always, no matter what has always, just really impressed me. And so you are a big inspiration and a mentor to me. And I also want to say Delia has been there [Creative Commons] since the very beginning. And I just want to say here in this moment to say that I’m so delighted to know Catherine Stihler, now — I did not know anything about her until she became the CEO. But we’ve been working together, and I’m just so thrilled by her version of leadership, and I’m so excited to see where she’s going to take this organization. I’m really thrilled to have more women coming in and women staying in.
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Kaitlin:这个很难,我想说,因为没有大量的科学35岁以下的女性,更不用说50,当我们在做这样的工作,我将到达女性mentees-but我也不得不说,哈尔Ableson,詹姆斯·博伊尔,迈克。卡罗尔和约翰Willbanks就像有助于确保我准备审查的水平作为一个女人,年轻的和在传统的男性主导的空间。在很多情况下，那里并不总是让人感到安全，他们确保我准备好了，我得到了支持，我永远对此心存感激。我希望这不是我们以同样的方式培训其他人所需要的，而是对他们的远见的巨大呼喊。我还想说，就这个领域的个人而言，导师和学员丹妮尔·罗宾逊，她是科学与社会准则的联合执行董事，我现在不仅是董事会成员，而且很幸运地成为了一个得到财政资助的项目。她曾经是我在Mozilla的同事之一，现在她领导着一个非常真诚的组织，为各种各样的项目注入关怀、开放、领导力和支持。所以这是我继续向她学习的令人惊叹的例子之一，但它也回到了原点。我认为这是非常重要的，因为我们可以通过各种方式来实现这一点。
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Jennie:I feel very lucky to have been nurtured by all the women on this panel, as well as by Catherine. I’ve had a close relationship with the first librarian I ever really got to know, who is Jenna Freedman, the Zine Librarian at Barnard College, which is where I first encountered a lot of the free culture ideas that I have spent my career working with… As far as mentors go, Jenna is for ever, but I also really do feel lucky to have been nurtured by all of you. Particularly as somebody who is a younger ED, who was tapped on the shoulder, like “do you want to try a strategy?”, “well do what actually, just do this thing?” And now it’s been a really exciting 10 months, and to be honest, I really see most of my relationships as being a two-way street, like Caitlin said… I’ve had the opportunity and joy to work with a lot of folks within the Library Futures community who are really doing the work of controlled digital lending, or really doing the on the ground work with patrons and with user communities, and getting to know a whole new group of folks… Again, a long way of saying I feel nurtured by most of the people I get to interact with, and I feel like that makes me in many ways one of the most fortunate people within the space.
