Re:Reasons why less women as computer enthusiasts
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All this fuss about differentiating between female geeks and male geeks really sucks. Computers and software are designed by human beings for human beings - that's why our mind can relate to the logic of machines at all - and not even the most macho-guy would exclude women from the whole human race, would he? As for why there are few female hackers -it's not just we're less expected to enjoy computers at a young age where guys usually find out about it all. Male geeks naturally get this sense of living in a community of like-minded beings while female geeks are both sometimes rejected by men/teachers/parents and not understood by their women-friends. For us women, this social aspect might be even more important than to men. Talking about my own experiences, I'm a math student, and quite a good one so people didn't dare to question my abilities. I only really found out about computers at university and I got pretty hooked after a while. However, I needed the right environment and being allowed/expexcted to find out for myself. There must be a lot of women out here who don't like to say anything much as I read a lot of the stuff people say on slashdot, and there are few females names, but I found it quite hard to find an approriate female name that noone else had chosen yet;-) Why don't we apply some of the freedom we cherish in software to social aspects too - as the suit-guy in the above article states, Open Source could well change society and work-life as such, not just software-aspects.
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All this fuss about differentiating between female geeks and male geeks really sucks. Computers and software are designed by human beings for human beings - that's why our mind can relate to the logic of machines at all - and not even the most macho-guy would exclude women from the whole human race, would he? As for why there are few female hackers -it's not just we're less expected to enjoy computers at a young age where guys usually find out about it all. Male geeks naturally get this sense of living in a community of like-minded beings while female geeks are both sometimes rejected by men/teachers/parents and not understood by their women-friends. For us women, this social aspect might be even more important than to men. Talking about my own experiences, I'm a math student, and quite a good one so people didn't dare to question my abilities. I only really found out about computers at university and I got pretty hooked after a while. However, I needed the right environment and being allowed/expexcted to find out for myself. There must be a lot of women out here who don't like to say anything much as I read a lot of the stuff people say on slashdot, and there are few females names, but I found it quite hard to find an approriate female name that noone else had chosen yet ;-) Why don't we apply some of the freedom we cherish in software to social aspects too - as the suit-guy in the above article states, Open Source could well change society and work-life as such, not just software-aspects.