OSCON keynote: Standing out in the crowd [LWN.net]

OSCON keynote: Standing out in the crowd

Posted Jul 27, 2009 22:53 UTC (Mon) by ewan (guest, #5533)
In reply to: OSCON keynote: Standing out in the crowd by puzzlement
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There is another alternative; a lot of the communication in Free software circles takes place in public, and on the record, so it's perfectly possible to notice directly something that's not aimed at you - men don't have to only 'notice' sexism by listening to accounts from affected women. A possible source for the discrepancy is that both men and women notice the same things, but differ in whether they believe particular behaviours to be sexist or not.

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OSCON keynote: Standing out in the crowd

Posted Jul 29, 2009 1:47 UTC (Wed) by Baylink (guest, #755) [Link]

You mean TFA doesn't say that?

Of course that's got to be a large part of it. A large part is also probably Minority Syndrome, from both sides; while women are probably 51% of the population now (which isn't helping *me* get any dates :-), I'd be surprised if they were as much as 20% of the technical population, and 5% of the hacking population.

(Go ahead: someone tell me the 'not getting dates' crack is sexist. If you do, I'll tell you to pull the stick out of what our UK pals would call your arse, and get a sense of humor. Being a grownup *is* a requirement.)