From Princess to Goddess: Female Success in IT (O'ReillyNet)

Posted Sep 21, 2007 1:24 UTC (Fri) by sharkscott (guest, #38015)
In reply to: From Princess to Goddess: Female Success in IT (O'ReillyNet) by forthy
Parent article: From Princess to Goddess: Female Success in IT (O'ReillyNet)

So for open source, this doesn't help a bit - we won't get more women, since working for the joy of it and very indirect reward apparently now is not socially accepted, not even for women.

Unfortunately for the most part the above statement is correct. I have met very few people who can wrap their heads around doing something just for the love of it, or because of the technological moral high ground Open Source is based on. Only my close friends and a few of my family members understand and accept why I do what I do. I have never met a Woman who was impressed or understanding of why I love what I do. No Status? No Money? No Way..

From Princess to Goddess: Female Success in IT (O'ReillyNet)

Posted Sep 22, 2007 11:29 UTC (Sat) by nix (subscriber, #2304) [Link] (1 responses)

Well, I don't meet many people of either sex yet I've found it much easier
to get across the exhilarating voluntary-for-the-love-of-it aspect to
women than to men.

YMMV, I guess.

From Princess to Goddess: Female Success in IT (O'ReillyNet)

Posted Sep 27, 2007 14:12 UTC (Thu) by forthy (guest, #1525) [Link]

Yes, it's socially accepted (especially for women) if you voluntarily work for your church or the hospital or some similar charity. Now, if we told women, that we voluntarily work for the "Church of Emacs", might that work? Would they believe that this is charity?