An Open Letter to the Open Source Community

[Eric Dunbar]

> > IMHO, the problem is only in the ratio of men to women. The "women's
> > clubs" like ubuntu-women are therefore only slightly useful in changing
> > the proportion as they provide somewhere where women outnumber the men
> > rather than a balance (although due to the nature of the forum any men
> > there will be unlikely to receive much of the attention I mentioned
> > above).
>
> The ratio isn't going to fix anything. Women can be part of a fully
> respectful majority (even overwhelming majority) community, or, they
> can even be a majority member of community which is male dominated
> (note the different usage of male majority and male dominated).

I meant:

"Woman can be part of a fully respectful male majority (even
overwhelming majority) community, or they can be part of a female
majority community which is male dominated".