[Fsf-friends] FLOSS breaks many walls... but not among the genders?

[Frederick Noronha (FN)]

FLOSS, or Free/Libre and Open Source Software, has
dramatically changed the way software is produced,
distributed, supported and used. It has a visible impact on
enabling a richer social inclusion. But how has it allowed
the gender problem existing in the software industry to be
replicated in the world of FLOSS? Amsterdam-based Taiwanese
researcher Yuwei Lin lists seven reasons why women stay off
FOSS -- including its strong long-hour coding culture, a lack
of mentors and role-models, discriminatory language
(including in documentation), a gendered text-based
environment, a lack of women-centered views in
FOSS-development, a male-dominated competitive worldview, and
the lack of sympathy from woman peers.
http://www.metamute.org/en/node/5596
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