Re: Where are the women?

There is women in python programming : pyladies.com

Maybe you can ask them to help to boost up women in Django world

Best regards

2012/4/24 Marcin Tustin <marcin.tustin@gmail.com>

I'm not suggesting that "women can't handle open source". If anything, I'm amazed that anyone chooses to work with proprietary products from the big vendors, because it generally seems harder.

On Tue, Apr 24, 2012 at 15:34, Tom Evans <tevans.uk@googlemail.com> wrote:

On Tue, Apr 24, 2012 at 3:20 PM, Marcin Tustin <marcin.tustin@gmail.com> wrote:
> My experience is that there are very few women working in shops that
> primarily use open source technology. When I've encountered them, it's been
> in Microsoft shops, and very large technology organisations which love
> proprietary technologies.
>

I don't think this is particularly true. I've met many male developers
who can't handle open source at all.

We use primarily open source - mainly python - at $JOB. In our UK dev
department we have ~ 25 developers, and ~ 20% of them are women. In
our US department it is more like 10%.

This compares to when I was at university (~10 years ago), when ~10%
of my peers were female. I don't think compsci admissions will reach
gender equality any time soon, so you can expect to see this trend
continue.

All of my colleagues are excellent (which is why we hired them!),
regardless of gender :)

Cheers

Tom

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