Re: Apropos of spam..
On Fri, Oct 10, 2008 at 9:38 PM, Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso
<jordigh@gmail.com> wrote:
>> development), and I really don't think the most important problems we
>> might face in this regard are Debian-specific in any way, but that
>> they depend instead on the way society is structured, education,
>> expectations put on women, and the patriarchy in general.
You are right in many ways. The most annoying part is when one is told
to know-tow because of the persons age (which I respect but it does
not mean everything they say is right.) which is something women hear
a lot. There are other problems but not appropriate for this list.
Apologies in advance if my mail sounds like a rant but its more a
local (India) perspective, not entirely Debian-specific.
> Do you ever wonder if it's in fact a problem that needs to be fixed at
> all? Maybe it's true that no matter how much encouragement and
> positive gender roles you give to girls for nerdy subjects like
> computers or technology, they just have a natural predisposition to
> not be attracted to them.
We are a startup which uses Debian as our main development platform
and recently hired the second woman, a fresher, to work with us.
Ideally I dream to have women forming half the team. If encouraged
they are willing to learn but getting them to ask questions on the
lists is a bigger challenge. I am not sure how to accomplish the
latter.
> I sometimes wonder why nobody seems to be in a rush to encourage more
> boys to knit, bake cookies, or take up sewing.
The nicest men I know cook very well, much better than me :) and icing
if they could knit and sew too ;)
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