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Yet another male perspective on women in free softwareYet another male perspective on women in free softwarePosted Oct 4, 2007 13:47 UTC (Thu) by lysse (guest, #3190)In reply to: Yet another male perspective on women in free software by paulmfoster Parent article: Yet another male perspective on women in free software
> 11. Women are potentially as capable as men in most areas. It really depends on whether they're *interested* in an area or not.
10 or so years ago, that wouldn't even have had to be stated explicitly - it was a generally-held assumption. Have we regressed in the last decade?
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Yet another male perspective on women in free software Posted Oct 4, 2007 20:07 UTC (Thu) by flewellyn (subscriber, #5047) [Link] Yes, we have. The mass resurgence, on the global political scene, of ultra-reactionary fascist thinking has led to a commensurate erosion of respect for women, racial minorities, religious diversity, and in general everybody who is different from "the norm" in the country in question. It's especially bad right now in the US and in the Muslim world, but it's by no means confined to those places.
Yet another male perspective on women in free software Posted Oct 17, 2007 17:41 UTC (Wed) by einhverfr (guest, #44407) [Link] The simple solution is to find a way to show who has been overtaken by such thinking that serves nobody. I have found that most of the jerks who mismanage software communities are also sexist. The problem is not what we as a society have regressed to but rather the fact that we give some people way too much power. I think that someone to start rating open source communities in terms of things like how welcome women feel in the communities.
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