Keynote: Truth, Social Justice (and the American Way?)

Abstract

In addition to being a long-standing problem in the computer science research literature, bathroom placement raises the complex questions of equality, fairness, and social justice, in a simpler domain than the issues we face in computing. Bathrooms are also something that we can, without much controversy, agree does involve some intrinsic biological differences. In most areas, the issues are not so bare as they are for restrooms, but similar issues arise. One of the great challenges we have in discussing under-representation of women in computing is that equality, fairness, and social justice are often in conflict with each other.