(Alex, can you please fix your ‘From’ field so that, like your signature, it gives your proper name.) Clockwork PC <clockworkpc@gmail.com> writes:
But 28% is nowhere near parity, and it raises the question of whether 50/50 is a realistic goal.
I don't know who is promoting parity, or 50/50. I would appreciate a Message-Id to whatever message you're getting that idea from. Who is proposing that goal? If no-one, why are you criticising it?
Far more importantly than how many women there are in open source is *how happy the women in open source are*. Even if 28% women is the very highest participation rate we can get, given the society we live, our goal should be that the women in open source get to feel safe and included in our movement.
Right. Given the apparent fact that free-software participation from women is at single-digit percentages, I'd say that supports the idea we are a long way from this laudable goal. -- \ “I don't want to live peacefully with difficult realities, and | `\ I see no virtue in savoring excuses for avoiding a search for | _o__) real answers.” —Paul Z. Myers, 2009-09-12 | Ben Finney