Hi, There is also Linuxchix Africa at www.africalinuxchix.org.
Merci Beaucoup, Anna Badimo -- WITS University ---------- Original Message ----------- From: Jon maddog Hall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tue, 12 Jul 2005 05:48:51 -0400 Subject: [DDN] Another Digital Divide: Women in computing > Hi, > > Often on this list we talk about the Digital Divide in terms of > money or access to technology. But there is another Digital Divide, > and that is in terms of gender.....and in some ways it is even > harder to conquer. Often I will give a talk at a university, and > out of 200 people in the audience, only in the range of one to 10 > will be a woman. > > I ran into a group of women in Brazil called "LinuxChix Brazil", > part of a larger organization called "LinuxChix International" > (www.linuxchix.org), founded by a friend of mine, Deb Richardson > (who has since "retired" from LinuxChix), and is currently run by > Jenn Vesperman out of Australia. The Brazilian group recently > published this page (which inspired me to write to the Digital > Divide list today): > > http://www.linuxchix.org.br/node.php?id=193 > > which shows the wonderful work that they are going both for the Free > and Open Source Software (FOSS) community, and also for the > inclusion of women into that community. > > The movement has spread to other groups (another group in Brazil called > "GNUrias" was started by the daughters of a friend of mine), and > they are also doing good things by teaching, doing translations, > writing code, etc. You can find information about them at > http://www.gnurias.org.br/ but unfortunately this is only in > Portugese (rats, should have spent more time at the HUMAN language > lab when I was in college). > > There are, of course, many other groups advocating women in > computing, but in my travels I have found one very interesting > country, Malaysia. In Malaysia over 70% of the country's university > graduates are women, and (not surprisingly) 70% of the people in IT > are women. Apparently it is easy for men to get jobs right out of > grade school, but harder for women, so the women go on to the > university. It is the only country I know where the government has > an active program to try to increase the number of MEN to enter and > graduate from university, just to make the ratio an even 50-50. > > So while we continue to talk (and hopefully act) on the other issues > of Digital Divide, let's not close our eyes to the lesser realized, > but still potent social issues that can also affect it. > > Warmest regards, > > maddog > -- > Jon "maddog" Hall > Executive Director Linux International(R) > email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 80 Amherst St. > Voice: +1.603.672.4557 Amherst, N.H. 03031-3032 U.S.A. > WWW: http://www.li.org > > Board Member: Uniforum Association, USENIX Association > > (R)Linux is a registered trademark of Linus Torvalds in several countries. > > (R)Linux International is a registered trademark in the USA used pursuant > to a license from Linux Mark Institute, authorized licensor of Linus > Torvalds, owner of the Linux trademark on a worldwide basis > > (R)UNIX is a registered trademark of The Open Group in the USA and other > countries. > > _______________________________________________ > DIGITALDIVIDE mailing list > DIGITALDIVIDE@mailman.edc.org > http://mailman.edc.org/mailman/listinfo/digitaldivide > To unsubscribe, send a message to digitaldivide- > [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word UNSUBSCRIBE in the body of the > message. ------- End of Original Message ------- _______________________________________________ DIGITALDIVIDE mailing list DIGITALDIVIDE@mailman.edc.org http://mailman.edc.org/mailman/listinfo/digitaldivide To unsubscribe, send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word UNSUBSCRIBE in the body of the message.
