There is women in python programming : pyladies.com

Maybe you can ask them to help to boost up women in Django world

Best regards

2012/4/24 Marcin Tustin <marcin.tus...@gmail.com>

> I'm not suggesting that "women can't handle open source". If anything, I'm
> amazed that anyone chooses to work with proprietary products from the big
> vendors, because it generally seems harder.
>
>
> On Tue, Apr 24, 2012 at 15:34, Tom Evans <tevans...@googlemail.com> wrote:
>
>> On Tue, Apr 24, 2012 at 3:20 PM, Marcin Tustin <marcin.tus...@gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>> > My experience is that there are very few women working in shops that
>> > primarily use open source technology. When I've encountered them, it's
>> been
>> > in Microsoft shops, and very large technology organisations which love
>> > proprietary technologies.
>> >
>>
>> I don't think this is particularly true. I've met many male developers
>> who can't handle open source at all.
>>
>> We use primarily open source - mainly python - at $JOB. In our UK dev
>> department we have ~ 25 developers, and ~ 20% of them are women. In
>> our US department it is more like 10%.
>>
>> This compares to when I was at university (~10 years ago), when ~10%
>> of my peers were female. I don't think compsci admissions will reach
>> gender equality any time soon, so you can expect to see this trend
>> continue.
>>
>> All of my colleagues are excellent (which is why we hired them!),
>> regardless of gender :)
>>
>> Cheers
>>
>> Tom
>>
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