Editor's Note: Sexism in FOSS

Courtesy Linux Today  Fri, 09/18/2009 - 17:27

Today is about sexism towards women in FOSS. It is about treating women differently, and poorly, just for being women.

It is about doing harm to FOSS. There are a number of reasons why the participation of women in FOSS is so low, around 1.5%, and cruddy treatment of women is a big one.

I don't know if it is worse in FOSS than in other arenas, and I don't care-- I'm not grading on a curve.

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