On Mon, Dec 29, 2008 at 10:10:51AM +0000, Noah Slater wrote: > On Mon, Dec 29, 2008 at 10:39:50AM +0100, Peter Tuhársky wrote: > > For me, the answer is quite simple. The computing is almost technical > > industry, and therefore it is naturally more suitable for men, who are > > naturally strog in technical thinking and achieving the task milestones. > > Just like there are much more women in people-contact positions, because > > women are naturally better equipped for social contact, empathy, > > caregiving... Althought I think it is time now, that much of technical > > issues are being solved or solved already, and there is need to make the > > computing experienca "more human". > > It is anecdotal gender profiling that causes women and men to choose certain > paths through life in the first place, and is hence one of the root causes of > the very problem we're trying to solve.
Interesting discussion. But as Noah mentioned elsewhere: off-topic on this list. Feel free to continue this off-list. Or maybe on debian-women (where this thread started and was actually discussed). -- Tzafrir Cohen | tzaf...@jabber.org | VIM is http://tzafrir.org.il | | a Mutt's tzaf...@cohens.org.il | | best ICQ# 16849754 | | friend -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org