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  • Aug. 4th, 2008 at 3:13 PM
Circe Invidiosa

Note to self: consider suggesting a WisCon panel on the role of women in the tech industry in general, and Open Source software in particular. I think that Emma Jane Hogbin's presentation is a good starting point, but there are a lot of good analses of the problem.

I particularly liked finding the link to the Five Geek Social Fallacies.

Two interesting data points to look up:

  1. What percentage of speakers at JavaOne were women?
  2. This week, Agile 2008 is taking place in Toronto. Is the percentage any different there?

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[info]indefatigable42 wrote:
Aug. 4th, 2008 07:28 pm (UTC)
You should join the LinuxChix mailing list and ask if anyone there goes to WisCon and would want to talk about it, or would have any ideas for a panel. You'd get lots of feedback there.
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[info]sinboy wrote:
Aug. 4th, 2008 07:37 pm (UTC)
Although I have no idea what the men/women proportion is at the conference, I note that a female friend of mine is presenting at the Agile.

I'm only replying because I'm thinking, hey, that's where [info]glib_dichotomy is. Nifty! I'm not making any sort of statement. Caveat caveat yadda yadda.
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[info]badgerbag wrote:
Aug. 4th, 2008 10:30 pm (UTC)
I'm in... especially if we bring it round to talking about female characters in science fiction and how sf portrays hackers & geeks & techies
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[info]heyfoureyes wrote:
Aug. 4th, 2008 11:37 pm (UTC)
Remember the University of Wisconsin study that just came out on lack of a gender difference in math ability on standardized tests.
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[info]secretsoflife wrote:
Aug. 5th, 2008 11:57 am (UTC)
a couple of resources:

http://www.cs.cmu.edu/afs/cs/project/gendergap/www/index.html <-- this book is the main reason i didn't drop out of CS.

I've also tagged a few relevant things on delicious: http://delicious.com/hypatia.ca/opensource+unlockingtheclubhouse
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[info]aquaeri wrote:
Aug. 5th, 2008 03:14 pm (UTC)
Thus Spake Zuska is a good resource on women and sexism in science and engineering.
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