women, get into IT... or else
women, get into IT... or else
Posted Oct 2, 2007 4:01 UTC (Tue) by njs (subscriber, #40338)In reply to: women, get into IT... or else by elanthis
Parent article: To Sir, with Love: How To Get More Women Involved in Open Source (O'ReillyNet)
>You realize that in order for a woman to be driven away from IT by discrimination, she'd have to ENTER the IT field in the first place, right? Or even take some classes, or _something_.
See http://lwn.net/Articles/251569/ and followups, and http://lwn.net/Articles/252602/ . And http://lwn.net/Articles/252605/ , for that matter. In sum, women are doing the things your quote mentions. It's just FOSS that they're staying away from, and there's reason to think that it's not just because they're "not that into it".
It's true that there probably aren't that many black people in FOSS, though I don't know if it's significantly lower than for IT in general. I am pretty sure that black people who do participate don't have to hide their real name when they show up on an IRC channel just to avoid getting sexual advances while they're trying to configure their firewall. If someone wants to make the argument that we are being inhumane to black people, I'll listen and consider it too, but in the mean time the evidence for women is pretty clear, at least to me... and to the point where yeah, I'm willing to call your statements "willful ignorance". Cheers.