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Women don't have the same passion for open source men do? Really??Women don't have the same passion for open source men do? Really??Posted Aug 27, 2009 22:25 UTC (Thu) by ShinyShiny (guest, #60486)In reply to: Women don't have the same passion for open source men do? Really?? by mjg59 Parent article: FSF to host a mini-summit on Women in Free Software Given that the number of women inolved in computing at pretty much any age is less than 50%, I suspect you're right. Worldwide yes - but you can find whole countries of millions of people, where the ICT work force is > 50% women. (Indonesia for example) And there are times in history where the gender of programmers, worldwide, was almost completely women.
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Women don't have the same passion for open source men do? Really?? Posted Aug 29, 2009 4:53 UTC (Sat) by yatima (guest, #59881) [Link] Are you maybe referring to Malaysia, and this study that Skud refuted last week?
Women don't have the same passion for open source men do? Really?? Posted Aug 29, 2009 11:29 UTC (Sat) by Skud (guest, #59840) [Link]
To be fair, what I refuted was not that Malaysia has a high proportion of women in IT -- it absolutely does. I was pointing out that this doesn't mean that "the developing world" has more women in IT, nor that Malaysia lacks sexism in IT.
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