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Re: Just a single Question for the Candidates



On Fri, 5 Mar 2004 09:25:49 +0000, Andrew Suffield <asuffield@debian.org> said: 

> On Fri, Mar 05, 2004 at 09:37:43AM +0100, Michael Banck wrote:
>> On Fri, Mar 05, 2004 at 02:07:06AM +0000, Andrew Suffield wrote:
>> > On Thu, Mar 04, 2004 at 10:04:15AM -0600, Manoj Srivastava wrote:
>> > > http://www.linux.org/docs/ldp/howto/Encourage-Women-Linux-HOWTO/x28.html#AEN41
>> >
>> > Hey, I remember that incident, and the author of the HOWTO has
>> > blown it out of all proportion. Try talking to the people
>> > involved.
>>
>> Huh? She modified the web archives?

> "Gee, surprise, these two responses are enough to drive her away"

> "the result of their actions is that women are leaving Linux"

> Bull.

	You have an alternate theory explaining the low incidence of
 women in male dominated activities like Debian, free software coding,
 coding in general, and CS overall?

	Also, it is easy for those not in the target group to dismiss
 the reports experiences that members of the target groups are having,
 but not, in my eyes, with much credibility.

	manoj
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