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Re: Question to candidates: what are your quantitative diversity goals and metrics?



>>>>> "Roberto" == Roberto C Sánchez <roberto@debian.org> writes:
    Roberto> I can infer that you likely view the current ratio of around 3% women
    Roberto> (33/1004) and around 96% men ((1004-33)/1004) [0] (and, yes, I recognize
    Roberto> that this does not account for gender minority individuals, but I was
    Roberto> not able to locate figures for that group). However, what is not clear
    Roberto> is at what point, in your own view, the situation is imbalanced. Would
    Roberto> you consider 65% men, 25% women, and 10% gender minority to have an
    Roberto> overrepresentation of men?

Why does it matter?
It seems implausible that  we would get from 3% women to a point where
we had a good gender balance in a year?

So why does the particular threshold matter at all?


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