What didn't he see?

[elsmi]

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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[howl_at_the_sun]

I read a lot of the OSCON keynote discussion. Some of the crap people were saying was depressing, but I felt really -relieved- at the intelligent responses that shot it down. Good stuff.

Girl Cooties and Boys' Treehouses

[helivoy]

As a scientist and a writer, I interact with many "progressive" groups. The attitude you describe is prevalent in all of them: science fiction writers, space exploration/SETI enthusiasts and practitioners, transhumanists, futurists. I wrote about this issue in two of my blog entries:

Girl Cooties Menace the Singularity!

Is It Something in the Water? Or: Me Tarzan, You Ape

Athena Andreadis
http://www.toseekoutnewlife.com/
http://www.starshipnivan.com/