Everyone, I met with Cosimo Cecchi, on of the Board directors of GNOME Foundation, in Beijing over these last couple of days.
At some point "female participation in OSS" came up, and he suggested us to get involved with Outreachy, a kind of Google Summer of Code, but exclusively for women. It originated at GNOME Foundation, but was handed over to Software Freedom Conservancy. He claims that it has worked very well for them. I offer this advice to those who have interest to run with it. Cheers Niclas