Re: Opening doors for women in computing

2005-02-21 Thread Jutta Wrage
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi! 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. And, maybe, even if they would be faster trying their way... So I

Re: Opening doors for women in computing

2005-02-21 Thread Jutta Wrage
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Am Sonntag, 20.02.05 um 16:11 Uhr schrieb Patricia Jung: My experience -- not only at university, but also in work life, and also as someone who has taught courses -- is that the majority of men has been socialized to show off. So it does not necessar

Re: Opening doors for women in computing

2005-02-21 Thread Mechtilde Stehmann
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 tha