Le lundi 4 novembre 2019 10:50:56 CET, vous avez écrit : > * Federico Leva <nemow...@gmail.com> [2019-11-04 09:02]: > > Alexandre François Garreau, 01/11/19 18:30: > > > Though women participate in GNU, > > > are any of them fortunately software package maintainer? Unfortunately, > > > I’m > > > not sure about this :/ > > LibrePlanet media is good place to see that it is not male society: > https://media.libreplanet.org/ > > There is no discrimination. Package maintainer are not looked upon > because of their gender.
I think people may be worried about either internal inconscious, unwilling discrimination, either about external discrimination that might make women dislike that place. Personally I just have the impression GNU is pretty closed circle and almost nobody, man or woman comes to know it that easily, except from external companies that work on any part of the toolchain. The question then fall on these companies, as said before, more than on rms (we would have to get history of women leaving these because of rms). > Finally, without women there would be no male package maintainers. > > Do you really think that long night sessions of programming and larval > stages[1] can be survived without our grandmothers, mothers, sisters, > wives, girlfriends, daughters and female friends? Impossible. > > The sole question is why women do not enter programming subjects may > be easily expressed in being simply smarter for the sake of life > style. They don't want to do to them what males like to do to > themselves. I strongly disagree (to both assertion), and hope we are quite a bunch to disagree too, so I hope nobody will believe that kind of thought is what keep women out, because that’s just a (wrong) descriptive statement (tailored to be initially negative about men) rather than a normative one. > Do you really think that long night sessions of programming and larval > stages[1] can be survived without our grandmothers, mothers, sisters, > wives, girlfriends, daughters and female friends? Impossible. > > Footnotes: > [1] http://www.catb.org/jargon/html/L/larval-stage.html What about asocial hackers leaving in celibacy, in cold with their family, like I know a bunch of? On the contrary, I consider loneliness, if well lived, can help. ESR too, says that. > The sole question is why women do not enter programming subjects may > be easily expressed in being simply smarter for the sake of life > style. They don't want to do to them what males like to do to > themselves. This (life style expectation) is arbitrary (you’d have to back that with more facts and observations), and “smartness” is a blurred notion, hard to define, not really relevant. Love of abstraction and computing is, to me, something that must be inherent to the human condition. It’s a highly intellectual thing. And women and men brains are no different at the base. So it must be a cultural thing. Either inside women, either inside men, either because of GNU, companies, IT, the rest of the society, etc. A lot of people already take this theorical ground for granted. What divides is “from what” and “how”.