Hello all! A quick introduction before I respond:
This is the first time I've posted to this group. I am not an OSS developer
(yet; I really do want to see my name "in lights" in a patch note at some
point, but I just haven't done it yet), but I was fairly active on debian-user
for a while, tryi
On 2005-02-21, Mechtilde Stehmann penned:
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> 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 m
On 2005-03-06, Miriam Ruiz penned:
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> The article is quite interesting, but this quote, afaik, is nonsense:
>
> Other studies establish a clear link between hormones and mathematical
> abilities, says David C. Geary, a professor of psychology at the University
> of Missouri at Columbia and author
I thought this article might be of interest to the group. The article is
rather flip, but beneath the surface I think I see some content.
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/03/20/opinion/20dowd.html?ex=1112072400&en=898d3ff11f9b96a1&ei=5070
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On 2005-03-21, David Nusinow penned:
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> I'm not even going to begin to touch the NYT article directly, as it makes
> my stomache churn. The findings have interesting implications for sexual
> dimorphisms, and perhaps more importantly differences between individuals.
> In no way though, does this i
On 2008-07-24, Kevin Mark penned:
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> "Our priority is our users" might have originally been "Our priority
> is our male users", not that I think Dev's did it intentionally. So
> any attempt to add a 'wishlist' feature in a way that makes our
> software more inclusive of 'all' of our users, sounds
On 2008-11-04, Helen Faulkner penned:
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> Ooh, can I play devil's advocate here?
I'd like to play, too! And I hope I do not sound confrontational ...
just trying to express some thoughts / starting points for discussion.
I've snipped throughout ... if I've oversnipped, I apologize. It was
all
On 2008-11-25, Meike Reichle penned:
> Usually the interview will go somewhere along the lines that at some
> point the talk turns to your kids and whatever cleverly composed
> combination of day nursery, part time working husband, kindergarten and
> what else you present, it will all be canceled o
On 2008-11-25, Anne Sorsa penned:
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> That is so true. One friend of mine has told me that she has problems to find
> CS work and she thinks that the biggest reason is her age. She is under 30
> years and maybe an employers are afraid that she might get pregnant.
Maybe it's a matter of location?
On 2008-11-25, Lesley Binks penned:
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> Well, when I was much younger the question asked at interviews was
> 'what are you going to do when you have children?'.
> That type of question is now illegal and could likewise open up the
> doors for a lawsuit in the UK - if the interviewee really never wa
On 2008-11-25, Brenda Wallace penned:
> On Tue, Nov 25, 2008 at 11:09 PM, Helen Faulkner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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>> To get back on topic, does anyone think that CS-related careers are harder or
>> easier, compared to other careers, to take a break from and actually get back
>> into it? As in
On 2008-11-22, Meike Reichle penned:
> Hi Steph, all
>
> Apparently the root of women choosing these subjects does not so much
> lie in their arts aspects but in their interdisciplinarity. I recently
> talked to a gender researcher about this topic and her results showed
> that girls/women feel esp
On 2008-11-28, Amaya penned:
> Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso wrote:
>> 2008/11/27 Lisi Reisz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
>> > I thought the idea of Debian Women was, at least in part, to give a safe
>> > space
>> > where men wouldn't laugh at you?? ;-)
>>
>> I am never sure. The original purpose was to encour
On 2008-12-22, Elizabeth Krumbach penned:
> I'm sure many of you on the list have already seen this:
>
> "Debian women may leave due to 'sexist' post":
> http://www.itwire.com/content/view/22320/1090/1/0/
>
> And much of the related discussion. I'm surprised there hasn't been
> discussion about it
On 2008-12-23, Michael Banck penned:
> On Mon, Dec 22, 2008 at 12:59:51PM -0700, Monique Y. Mudama wrote:
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> The message was sent to -devel-announce, not -devel.
>
>> But I don't know if the message needs to be taken in context
>> with many other messages.
>
On 2008-12-22, Peter Tuhársky penned:
> Saying that, I'm glad there are women in Debian community, although I
> don't fully understand their effort to maintain a special "Debian Women"
> community. There is no "Debian Men" community I know of, and probably
> noone find enough time or reasons wor
On 2008-12-23, Karolina penned:
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> Hi,
> I have a huge problem. I bought Logitech RX1500 mice yesterday, and when I
> pluged it in, it worked ju
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