To Sir, with Love: How To Get More Women Involved in Open Source (O'ReillyNet)

To Sir, with Love: How To Get More Women Involved in Open Source (O'ReillyNet)

My personal experience is that transgendered folk experience a good deal of success in the computer/technology field, but this may say far more about me than the field. That is, I am in that field. I know many people in that field. I live in the San Francisco Bay area. I am connected with several gay social circles of various stripes who despite their many failings have on the average less need to crap on transgered folks than the average bear.

So, my life selects for being able to openly talk to transgendered folks, and it selects for people in technology. At least in my life they seem to be fairly well represented in that field as compared to other fields, which is the opposite of the situation for women.

My anecdotal experience.