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Online critics slam RP computer society’s ‘beauty pageant’
Organizers call emergency meeting over flap
http://news.inq7.net/breaking/index.php?index=7&story_id=24788

A CONTEST launched by the Philippine Computer Society (PCS) to seek
out future women leaders in the Philippine information and
communication technology industry has come under heavy criticism, with
online detractors saying the contests is little more than a “glorified
beauty pageant.”

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