It is a recurring topic that got another push by the OSCON keynote of Skud about Standing out in the crowd so let me go over a couple of reasons why I should or should not care about more women in the Perl community. I did not do any research but I was lucky to find this blog entry of Elizabeth Naramore about Gender in IT, OSS, and PHP, and how it affects us *all* She points out two reasons:
Reason #1: Diversity makes us all more creative and innovative.Equally-gendered teams are more innovative, and innovation is crucial to the success of open source.
Reason #2: Help your (future) daughterAs statistics go the percentage of women in the whole IT industry is dropping. Reverting that trend can help your daughter find her career 10-20 years from now. Helping more women to join the Perl community will help more women to get in the IT industry in general. (I hope).
Other reasonsI am sure there might be other reasons as well. Some might even be valid. BTW it is interesting that there was also a Python related post: Roll call: Women in Python See also GeekFeminism Published on 2009-08-21 by Gabor Szabo
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