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Re: We need more women!!!
by Danny Allen on Thursday 10/Jan/2008, @14:54

Remember that those percentages are based on the *number of commits* in that week, not the number of contributors (even though the actual classification of contributors is likely similar).

I would welcome a respectful debate on this issue (a comment below states that the ratio of male/female Computer Science students is about 3 to 1 - this has not been my personal experience at university, and this is certainly not the case in the KDE project).

Out of the 991 KDE contributors in my database, 969 are male and 22 are female - and this covers all areas of KDE, including documentation and translation.

Danny

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Re: We need more women!!!
by Max on Thursday 10/Jan/2008, @16:57

Yea, at my old University. Cal State Monterey Bay it was actually a bit more balanced than that. But anywhere from a 60/40 to a 70/30 split (male/female) would be a good goal to set for the KDE 4.X.Y release cycle.

Computing should be more equal opportunity, and if women are welcomed more into the KDE/Linux world (without stereotypes (bad ones, at least) they will join in.

So instead of perpetuating this stereotype, I suggest that every person that reads this introduces 1-2 female programmers/developers/artists to KDE. Let's see if we can accomplish the goal of an even split by KDE 5.0 :)

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Re: We need more women!!!
by anon2 on Thursday 10/Jan/2008, @19:20

But it is equal opportunity. Females obviously don't want it, or care.

It's sexist to think otherwise. As long as the result is what is desired, I wouldn't care if the statistics were the other way around - and I don't think we'd be having these sexist posts, either.

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Re: We need more women!!!
by Chani on Thursday 10/Jan/2008, @21:51

but it *isn't* equal opportunity. you obviously just haven't seen this for yourself. lots of people don't see their own privilege; it's kinda like trying to see the back of your own head.

it's certainly a heck of a lot better than it used to be, but there's always room for improvement. :)

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