So probably some of you already know a depressing fact about
free software: its developers are about 98.5% male. That's not hyperbole, it's a
real statistic; female participation ratios are about 10-30 times worse than for even closely related fields like professional programming or academic computer science. It's a wonderful, wonderful community
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(Thanks, njs!)
(Thanks also, mippo!)
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(Mippo is in the wash, but I will pass that on when he returns!)
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Er.... you guys realize that bit was irony, right?
Or maybe AYKB is not as clearly that to everyone on elsmi's flist as it is to us here?
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Re: male computer geeks panicking around women, certainly that's a factor, but I think if you read those threads (and similar discussions elsewhere) then you'll see that there's rather a bit more going on :-(.
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Even though I really don't otherwise participate in the free software movement, I guess as a woman who still identifies as an engineer, who once earned a living as a software engineer, I sort of feel engineering and programmer women are 'my people'.
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