[UbuntuWomen] Hi, I'm the new kid | Can technology be "more female"?

Ryan Prior ryanprior at gmail.com
Sat Apr 25 17:12:44 UTC 2009


On Sat, Apr 25, 2009 at 9:21 AM, julia friesel
<julia.friesel at googlemail.com> wrote:
> Hello everyone,
> since I'm new to this list, I'd like to briefly introduce myself: I'm a
> 25-year-old grad sociology student, currently living in New York.

Welcome.

> However, I sometimes tend to get frustrated with "the technical side
> of things" quickly, realizing how much of the basics I am still missing. So
> I'm hoping to learn a little by being on here.

We are happy to help.

> I am also currently working on a paper on women in free software, exploring
> why it is that technology is such a male domain and why it can be so
> difficult for women to enter it (or why most of them don't want to in the
> first place), and what the implications of all this are for the digital
> architectures we will continue to live in. So any thoughts on that subject
> are highly appreciated :)

I'll leave this to the women on the list, except to say that in my
experience IT employers are waking up to the reality of a viable and
profitable female work force. :-)


As you come into questions or difficulties, feel free to contact us
via this list, the ubuntu-women board on the forums
(http://ubuntuforums.org/forumdisplay.php?f=76), or our channel on
Freenode (irc://irc.freenode.net/ubuntu-women).

Cheers,
Ryan




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