Re: Opening doors for women in computing
Michael is writing (under his wife's account):
Helen Faulkner wrote:
My approximate theory is that, on average, women follow a different
route to being interested in things like Debian and FOSS compared to the
average man, and that my experiences are not unusual. But I might be
all wrong on that - I'm going on anecdotal evidence only
As a husband of a debian-women and a father of two daughters working and
playing with computers I have observed women and men have different
kinds of approaching the computer. Girls and women will think and read
first - boys and men are learning more by try and error. So girls are
often pushed aside - even if they have the better ideas to solve a problem.
So I think it's necessary to lead girls early to the computer telling
them they coulndn't "destroy" anything. So they get the courage to
compete with boys successfully.
By the way: It was my wife, who brought the first computer in our
relationship.
Michael Stehmann
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