On 24/11/2010 21:12, Daniel Gibson wrote:
bearophile schrieb:
Bruno Medeiros:
On the other hand, I would be surprised if a person of the female
variety
would be that interested in D, to the point of contributing in such way.
In Python newsgroups I have seen few women, now and then, but in the D
newsgroup so far... not many. So far D seems a male thing. I don't
know why. At the university at the Computer Science course there are a
good enough number of female students (and few female teachers too).
Bye,
bearophile
At my university there are *very* few woman studying computer science.
Most women sitting in CS lectures here are studying maths and have to do
some basic CS lectures (I don't think they're the kind that would try D
voluntarily).
We have two female professors though.
It is well know that there is a big gender gap in CS with regards to
students and professionals. Something like 5-20% I guess, depending on
university, company, etc..
But the interesting thing (although also quite unfortunate), is that
this gap takes a even greater dip downwards when you consider the
communities of FOSS developers/contributors. It must be well below 1%!
(note that I'm not talking about *users* of FOSS software, but only
people who actually contribute code, whether for FOSS projects, or for
their own indie/toy projects)
--
Bruno Medeiros - Software Engineer
