Leaky Pipeline Bingo Cards

[fuzzyred]

I'm not sure how many fills I'll be able to get this month, but I was curious enough to make a card. I decide to make a card with the People list, and the Resilience Factors list, then combined them on the same card. I'm going to try to use both prompts in the same work, if I manage to make any fills. I also made a three by three STEMZ card. That one is more for inspiration than anything. I may or may not use those prompts, but it will at least give me a guideline for when I'm trying to come up with fills.

People/Resilience Factors Card

historians; wellness programs	students; support working parents	Native Americans; flexible scheduling	disabled people; help disabled people find schools / jobs
ethicists; subsidies for accommodations	foster children; stability / tenure	teachers; women owned / operated business	social engineers; official recognition of achievements
bosses; cultural awareness	single parents; hire minorities in pairs	black people; gender awareness	bullies; intersectional activism
Hispanic people; multicultural environment	college enrollment staff; support network	women / girls; structural assistance	poor people; proactive hiring

STEMZ Majors/Fields/Careers

information security	metallurgy	database management
meteorology	avionics repair	physics
water conservation	industrial engineering	geology

Comments

*laugh*

[ysabetwordsmith]

Native Americans; flexible scheduling = Indian time!

Which does not mean "late" like Pagan time does, it means "when everybody gets there." A reasonably functioning group of tribal folks has enough social proprioception that they actually will show up fairly close to the same time. It's cool to watch.

Re: *laugh*

[fuzzyred]

I got a few squares that ended up matching fairly well.

Also, thanks for the further information, that sounds like a cool way for social gatherings to function.

Re: *laugh*

[ysabetwordsmith]

It's a holdover from before mechanical clocks. Unless you went to the bother of making a sun-clock, about the most precision you could get was 15-30 minutes for something like "at noon," "at sunset," "at suppertime," or "when Big Rock's shadow points at Little Rock." And that's the typical timespan of arrival even now.

Re: *laugh*

[fuzzyred]

That makes a lot of sense. I'm not sure I could get that close to a signifier like "noon" without a clock, so that's pretty impressive to me.

Re: *laugh*

[ysabetwordsmith]

Noon is easy to discern when the sun is out. Shadows will be at their shortest and point north. Around the equator, the sun is directly overhead and the shadows disappear.

https://www.outdoorfederation.com/how-to-tell-time-with-the-sun/

Re: *laugh*

[fuzzyred]

I remember watching shadows like that as a kid, waiting for them to be as short as they were going to get. I don't think they ever disappeared around here, but they were little puddles around our feet.

Re: *laugh*

[ysabetwordsmith]

Some tribes had a dead tree or a "meeting post" they would use because it was easy to read.

Re: *laugh*

[fuzzyred]

That sounds like a very sensible solution.