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The 2008 kernel summit group photo

Posted Sep 22, 2008 8:50 UTC (Mon) by zoobab (guest, #9945)
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Where are the girls?

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The 2008 kernel summit group photo

Posted Sep 22, 2008 20:39 UTC (Mon) by nix (subscriber, #2304) [Link]

This is free software, nicely egalitarian. There are no girls, and
(almost) no women. :(

(I think everyone wishes they knew why this happens. I think I may work
with more women in my proprietary-software job at work than *exist* in the
entire free software field, and it's not a terribly large company :((( )

(aside: am I the only person who finds 'girls' used to describe adult
women rather offensive? You wouldn't call a thirty-year-old man a 'boy',
after all... it has implications of long-term childlike dependency and so
on. One wonders how anyone can think this way: didn't they have mothers?)