Re:Reasons why less women as computer enthusiasts (Score 1)

All this fuss about differentiating between female geeks and male geeks really sucks. Computers and software are designed by human beings for human beings - that's why our mind can relate to the logic of machines at all - and not even the most macho-guy would exclude women from the whole human race, would he? As for why there are few female hackers -it's not just we're less expected to enjoy computers at a young age where guys usually find out about it all. Male geeks naturally get this sense of living in a community of like-minded beings while female geeks are both sometimes rejected by men/teachers/parents and not understood by their women-friends. For us women, this social aspect might be even more important than to men. Talking about my own experiences, I'm a math student, and quite a good one so people didn't dare to question my abilities. I only really found out about computers at university and I got pretty hooked after a while. However, I needed the right environment and being allowed/expexcted to find out for myself. There must be a lot of women out here who don't like to say anything much as I read a lot of the stuff people say on slashdot, and there are few females names, but I found it quite hard to find an approriate female name that noone else had chosen yet ;-) Why don't we apply some of the freedom we cherish in software to social aspects too - as the suit-guy in the above article states, Open Source could well change society and work-life as such, not just software-aspects.