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bugshaw at 12:03pm on 02/04/2007
bugshaw at 12:03pm on 02/04/2007Early this morning I read a paper on gender and the Open Source movement, following a pointer from ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
rmc28. 75 pages about how women are/feel excluded from Open Source communities due to their overarching meritocratic nature and lack of tolerance for other factors. Everyone should be equal, it is a pure meritocracy! Yeah, but one that boys started to build from a young age when they tended to shun girls with their girl cooties. Did their sisters get a fair share on the family computer? Women are competing in the communities (gracious, that's an odd phrase to use!) with men who have some years head start. How do you catch up with that? You don't get a place of respect until you can manage that.
Thenmaviscruet posted a link to this article by Douglas Hofstadter which uses "outrageous" parallels with racial discrimination to draw attention to how our "natural" language is rife with sexism.
And now my brain is spinning with far too many ideas to write down, certainly as a cogent standalone post.
rmc28. 75 pages about how women are/feel excluded from Open Source communities due to their overarching meritocratic nature and lack of tolerance for other factors. Everyone should be equal, it is a pure meritocracy! Yeah, but one that boys started to build from a young age when they tended to shun girls with their girl cooties. Did their sisters get a fair share on the family computer? Women are competing in the communities (gracious, that's an odd phrase to use!) with men who have some years head start. How do you catch up with that? You don't get a place of respect until you can manage that.Then
maviscruet posted a link to this article by Douglas Hofstadter which uses "outrageous" parallels with racial discrimination to draw attention to how our "natural" language is rife with sexism.And now my brain is spinning with far too many ideas to write down, certainly as a cogent standalone post.
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