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Women expected to take care-taker/support/social/maternal roles

Women expected to take care-taker/support/social/maternal roles

Posted Aug 29, 2009 11:25 UTC (Sat) by Skud (guest, #59840)
In reply to: Women expected to take care-taker/support/social/maternal roles by BrucePerens
Parent article: FSF to host a mini-summit on Women in Free Software

But many of us don't *want* to. Many of us would rather be hacking!


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Women expected to take care-taker/support/social/maternal roles

Posted Aug 29, 2009 17:29 UTC (Sat) by BrucePerens (guest, #2510) [Link]

Well, in between responding to LWN posts :-), I am working on something that is really important to society that I can't tell you about yet. And I'd rather be hacking too.

Women expected to take care-taker/support/social/maternal roles

Posted Aug 31, 2009 13:27 UTC (Mon) by Skud (guest, #59840) [Link]

Sure, but presumably nobody's saying it's your duty to do so because of your gender.

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