[UbuntuWomen] thread on "obstacles for women in IT"

Melissa Draper melissa at meldraweb.com
Sun Feb 10 13:42:39 UTC 2008


Emma Jane Hogbin wrote:
> You may want to chime in as well:
> http://etbe.coker.com.au/2008/02/09/an-obstacle-for-women-in-the-it-industry/
> 
> The basic premise of the blog post is that a salesman was in an airport
> trying to give away stuff and by the end of the day he'd received so
> many negative responses from women that he just stopped trying. The
> comments are interesting too.
> 
> regards,
> emma
> 

Yeah, I read the post and the one it's based on, and can't help but to 
think 'You're doing it wrong'.

Aside from that, the author hasn't got a whole lot of respect within the 
aussie foss community, from what I've noticed.

-- 
Sincerely
Melissa Draper

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