[OSGeo-Discuss] Gender bias in nominations

[Andrea Giacomelli]

quick question: does OSGEO have a feel -or even better a number- of the
gender proportion in the "OSGEO population"? (take for instance this
mailing list as a proxy).

best

Andrea
http://www.pibinko.org


2014-07-24 17:16 GMT+02:00 Margherita Di Leo <dileomargherita at gmail.com>:

> Hi,
>
> thank you Jeff for having raised this matter, I find it really interesting
> for the sake of pure data analysis and discussion. I agree with Maria
> except one single point: is it really important? I think it is. As Maria
> points out, I agree it is not from OSGeo side that the problem should be
> addressed, because i don't see any barriers for women approaching OSGeo. On
> the contrary, it is one of the kindest and welcoming environment. But I
> think that it would be very interesting to analyse the real causes why
> women apparently seem not to be attracted by these subjects. I think that
> there are deeper sociological and practical reasons behind. It would be an
> interesting exercise to explore the correlation between number of females
> in open source/technology/science with some drivers such as the perspective
> of working stability offered by different countries, the facilities for
> working mothers offered by private and public sectors and so on. I think
> that exploring such reasons in detail would really help to improve society
> and to offer real "equal" opportunities to every citizen.
>
> Best,
> madi
>
>
> On Thu, Jul 24, 2014 at 4:55 PM, María Arias de Reyna <
> delawen+osgeo at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>>
>>
>>
>> On Thu, Jul 24, 2014 at 4:45 PM, Jeff McKenna <
>> jmckenna at gatewaygeomatics.com> wrote:
>>
>>> It has been reported to me directly that there are not enough female
>>> nominations for Charter members.  I just want to bring this to the
>>> attention of the whole community.
>>>
>>> Thanks all,
>>>
>>> -jeff
>>>
>>>
>> Agreed.
>>
>> On the other hand, no one should be nominated just because of their
>> gender. In the long run, it doesn't help increasing female numbers. (It
>> won't be the first time someone thinks I am where I am just because I am
>> female and not because I worked hard.)
>>
>> I'm sorry if I am bothering someone, but I am very picky with all this
>> stuff. It is the eternal discussion about not having enough female in tech
>> organizations. If we want to have more female on OsGeo, we should go to
>> school now to have them in OsGeo in a few years :)
>>
>> Until then, does it really matter? Are we doing things different? I know
>> it looks very cool to have half and half but, is it really important?
>>
>> Regards,
>> María.
>>
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>
>
>
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>
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