Discussing the Balance
I accumulated a few links this summer about gender equity in computing, particularly in open source. The two that bear re-reading are:
- Robert Kaye reports on Kirrily Robert's OSCON keynote "Standing Out in the Crowd". Five years after Michelle Levesque and I looked at gender ratios in open source, the average is still only 1.5% female (though some projects, like Drupal, have reached the same 15-20% as the industry as a whole). Most of the talk was upbeat, though, as some people are working hard to address the problem.
- Maggie Fox's "Oi! Are we invisible or something?" makes some of the same points, and offers a checklist of things conference organizers can do to help.