Michael is writing (under his wife's account):
Helen Faulkner wrote:
My approximate theory is that, on average, women follow a different route to being interested in things like Debian and FOSS compared to the average man, and that my experiences are not unusual. But I might be all wrong on that - I'm going on anecdotal evidence only
As a husband of a debian-women and a father of two daughters working and playing with computers I have observed women and men have different kinds of approaching the computer. Girls and women will think and read first - boys and men are learning more by try and error. So girls are often pushed aside - even if they have the better ideas to solve a problem.
So I think it's necessary to lead girls early to the computer telling them they coulndn't "destroy" anything. So they get the courage to compete with boys successfully.
By the way: It was my wife, who brought the first computer in our relationship.
Michael Stehmann
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