Re:The Net isn't open to everyone.... (Score 1)

because, guess what, I'm in my mid-twenties, female, and love working with technology.

Sounds good to me... are you single too? ;)

Seriously, does requiring technical knowledge imply that the net is necessarily gender biased? I believe that the gender distribution of technical information is a function of society, and it is our society which is not gender neutral. For example, most of the operators of early computers (which were themselves called computers) were female; at the time, computing was consider boring and secretarial. Of course, all those women did was move around the program cards which some man made, but it still required more intimate knowledge of how the machine worked than win95.

Furthermore, as computers become easier to use, and more importantly as communications become a more common use of computers, I predict more females will get online, although maybe not in a highly technical capacity. Is that necessarily bad? What do you think will contribute more to net politics, posting to discussion groups or editing routing tables?