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

Akke laacque at gmail.com
Tue Apr 28 20:22:56 UTC 2009


> 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 :)
>
> Cheers,
> Julia
>
>
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Julia, welcome.
Perhaps the book The Athena factor is interesting as well. It's about the
reasons why women quit tech.
Here's an article about it.

http://techher.blogspot.com/2008/06/athena-factor-women-leaving-technology.html

Akke
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