Amaya wrote:
Peter Tuhársky wrote:Saying that, I'm glad there are women in Debian community, although I don't fully understand their effort to maintain a special "Debian Women" community. There is no "Debian Men" community I know of, andOh! Wait! What about the men! I think you lack some perspective. Debian Men is the *default* When I joined Debian there were 4 female developers, only one was active., out of 1000 male ones. I felt weird becasue I was so much intothis 'boy thing'.By creating Debian Women, we are sending out the message that it is definitely ok to be a female and and a geek, and we aim to create visibility for those female users, developers, contributors... so that they can serve as 'role models', or inspiration for other males andfemales who might be inteested in getting involved.Regarding my personal webpage, it has nothing to do with Debian, so it is offtopic in this discussion. The fact that I am a radical feminist has nothing to do with Debian Women. I learned about feminism a lot after Debian Women was created. My sorry attemps to get approval of our project from male developers can be found in the list archives and proof I had no idea what I was doing. When I reflected upon my need for approval, I also found my answer to the one million dollars question: Why are there so few women in computing? For me, the patriachy is an acceptable answer. Find your own, it is anenlightment trip, and you do not need to aome to my same answer.You are right, the images there might be offensive to you as a man.I am not sorry for that, sorry :)Debian Women is a group of women, not a group of feminists. Some of us are feminists, well, get over it. If any part of my answer sounds harsh, I am sorry, I didn't intend to. I did my best over a sloppy ssh connection to be clear, but unapologetic. I blame the patriarchy for this.
From: http://cs-www.cs.yale.edu/homes/tap/past-women-cs.html
Pioneering Women of Computing
* *Ada Byron King, Countess of Lovelace (1815-1852)*
<http://cs-www.cs.yale.edu/homes/tap/ada-lovelace.html>
* *Edith Clarke (1883-1959)*
<http://cs-www.cs.yale.edu/homes/tap/past-women-cs.html#Edith%20Clarke>
* *Rósa Péter (1905-1977)*
<http://cs-www.cs.yale.edu/homes/tap/past-women-cs.html#Rosa%20Peter>
* *Grace Murray Hopper (1906-1992)*
<http://cs-www.cs.yale.edu/homes/tap/past-women-cs.html#Grace%20Hopper>
* *Alexandra Illmer Forsythe (1918-1980)*
<http://cs-www.cs.yale.edu/homes/tap/past-women-cs.html#Alexandra%20Illmer%20Forsythe>
* *Evelyn Boyd Granville*
<http://cs-www.cs.yale.edu/homes/tap/past-women-cs.html#Evelyn%20Granville>
* *Margaret R. Fox*
<http://cs-www.cs.yale.edu/homes/tap/past-women-cs.html#Margaret%20R.%20Fox>
* *Erna Schneider Hoover*
<http://cs-www.cs.yale.edu/homes/tap/past-women-cs.html#Erna%20Schneider%20Hoover>
* *Kay McNulty Mauchly Antonelli*
<http://cs-www.cs.yale.edu/homes/tap/past-women-cs.html#Kay%20Mauchly>
* *Alice Burks*
<http://cs-www.cs.yale.edu/homes/tap/past-women-cs.html#Alice%20Burks>
* *Adele Goldstine*
<http://cs-www.cs.yale.edu/homes/tap/past-women-cs.html#Adele%20Goldstine>
* *Joan Margaret Winters*
<http://cs-www.cs.yale.edu/homes/tap/past-women-cs.html#Joan%20Margaret%20Winters>
No, women never did anything significant with computers.
Why didn't this lady stay in the kitchen?? Physics is such a 'guy thing'.
From Wikipedia:
*Marie Skłodowska–Curie* (7 November 1867 – 4 July 1934) was a physicist
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Physicist> and chemist
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chemist> of Polish
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poland> upbringing and, subsequently,
French <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/France> citizenship. She was a
pioneer in the field of radioactivity
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radioactivity>, the only person honored
with Nobel Prizes <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nobel_Prize> in two
different sciences,^[1]
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marie_Curie#cite_note-0> and the first
female professor at the University of Paris
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University_of_Paris>.
Michael