On Fri, Oct 10, 2008 at 11:08:44AM -0500, Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso wrote: > 2008/10/10 Miriam Ruiz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > I don't have any great marvellous ideas on how to achieve this (to > > make more women attracted to the idea of cooperating with Debian's > > development), and I really don't think the most important problems we > > might face in this regard are Debian-specific in any way, but that > > they depend instead on the way society is structured, education, > > expectations put on women, and the patriarchy in general. > > Do you ever wonder if it's in fact a problem that needs to be fixed at > all? Maybe it's true that no matter how much encouragement and > positive gender roles you give to girls for nerdy subjects like > computers or technology, they just have a natural predisposition to > not be attracted to them. > > I sometimes wonder why nobody seems to be in a rush to encourage more > boys to knit, bake cookies, or take up sewing.
Most people aren't in a rush to encourage girls to work with computers or on other "nerdy" subjects either. I really don't believe in natural predespositions of any kind. They are simply a to convenient excuse for not doing anything to overcome these traditions. I also believe that it would be as worthwile to encourage boys to knit, bake cookies or take up sewing. I for one love baking cookies and I'm glad that I had to learn sewing and kniting at primary school. If it had not been compulsory, I probably wouldn't have taken the subject, if only because I would habe been the only boy in class. Gaudenz -- Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better. ~ Samuel Beckett ~ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
