On Wed, May 13, 2015 at 1:56 PM, James Mortensen <james.morten...@synclio.com> wrote:
[...] > I have a theory that encouragement can go a long way. If you're a student, > invite the women in your classes to attend Chennaipy. If you work, invite > women in your office. If you have a sister or daughter, encourage her to go > out into the world and make it her own. Don't try to "protect" her with > different rules or ideologies. It's not protecting, it's restricting. well said. +1 > With that said, I don't think a separate group would help; it would just > make this problem worse. This just perpetuates the idea that women need to > be "protected". For this to work, we need to create an environment of > respect for everyone, tolerance, and the idea of personal responsibility for > all of our actions. While I very much agree with you James, I think that an org like PyLadies helps with the initial hurdle of getting women into technology. Usually, it is this part that is very important as it can make or break an impression. PyLadies IMO is a great way to foster that impression and help bring focus to the technology where it should rightfully be. The fact is that we *dont* have / aren't trying hard enough to create the environment that you talk about. In an idealistic scenario that is how it should be. But in reality it really isn't that way (as you have remarked yourself). Reality expects, as Jacob said, you to be a "great" programmer or it expects you to be "cut out for" technology. PyLadies helps in that exact area. The focus on technology would give confidence (or clarity) to face what reality holds. I very much look up to all the women in tech. For them to have braced all that the community throws at them and stand their ground is worth much praise. _______________________________________________ Chennaipy mailing list Chennaipy@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/chennaipy
