Am Wed, 18 April 2001 schrieb Deirdre Saoirse: > On Mon, 16 Apr 2001, will trillich wrote: > > > > Like most places in GNU/Linux land, and IT in general for that > > > matter, the project (newbiedoc) isn't getting "all the help" that it > > > needs because: the help of women is lacking. It's sad to see 1/2 > > > the human race is missing, once again.
Only half the human race? I looked at the project's Sourceforge page and it only has 7 developers +- 4 'admins'. I thought there was a world population problem, but obviously I was wrong. dash - colon - right-bracket > > > There are some women working > > > on tech. projects here and there, but as we well know, it's male > > > dominated. Most of the software engineer types where I work are men, as you suggest, but there are a number of female engineers too. I don't know if they bring anything 'different' to the job, only that they are as capable of doing it as any of the others, which is all that matters. > It could be because a lot of women are brushed off, or feel that they are. > I must confess that sometimes it seems like men have invisible rays with > which they communicate, Its not true. Most of us are still not Bluetooth enabled. Get your own FREE E-mail address at http://www.linuxfreemail.com Linux FREE Mail is 100% FREE, 100% Linux, and 100% yours!
