GNOME Reaches Out to Women

Posted by ryuzaki0 on Thursday June 15, 2006 @02:08PM from the all-the-ladies-in-the-house dept.

Dominic Hargreaves writes "This year GNOME received 181 applications to Google's Summer of Code program, yet none were from women. As a result, they've decided to address this imbalance by launching an outreach program to sponsor three female students to work on GNOME-related projects this summer." Most any science department will tell you that the amount of interest and involvement of women pales next to men of similar age and background. Is this sponsorship a creative way to get women interested in GNOME, or is it merely sexist?

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Re:What kind of projects? by Anonymous Coward · 2006-06-15 15:00 · Score: 0, Offtopic

What's insulting about it is that this research has already been done and Summers simply ignored it. There's a large body of literature that has examined the question and found again and again that gender makes zero difference when it comes to ability in science. Summers' comments were just plain intellectually lazy.