[Linux-aus] How can we address gender imbalance in LA/AU-FLOSS? (Was: An Open Letter to the Open Source Community)

[Nigel Cunningham]

Hi.

On Thu, 2007-05-24 at 12:12 +1000, James Purser wrote:
> On Thu, 2007-05-24 at 10:54 +0930, Kym Farnik wrote:
> > 
> > I think we should expect FLOSS to have the same gender proportions as
> > the ICT industry in general.   Meaning 20-25%.  To expect more is not
> > sensible.   For whatever reasons more males are attracted to ICT,
> > although females are just as capable.
> > 
> 
> I've been pondering this stat for a little while now. The disparity
> between the women in ICT vs women in FOSS is quite large, and I don't
> think it can be solely attributed to knuckle draggers.
> 
> Thoughts on why this is would be welcome.

Is it possible to get finer grained data on what areas of ICT women are
involved in? Maybe there's some skew in that data that would help
explain the difference.

Regards,

Nigel
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