On May 29, 3:10 pm, "Srishtee Gurung" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Yes, there are very less female participants in FOSS nepal. And we have to
> make the environment very much appropriate for female participants. And I
> can see that loads of male fossians(Nepali) attitudes that needs to be
> changed. There are lot of great guys working very hard to establish FOSS
well, no offence intended, but what exactly does "loads of male
fossian attitudes that needs to be changed" mean?
i think, we are already on the wrong track. Its not only in FOSS and
computer science, take any engineering subject, female participation
has been always low. And blaming *solely* the male attitudes for this
is the least likely method of improving it.
No pun intended, but for guys, its always pain to be spending life in
a chick-less field. Given increased female participation and
enthusiasm, males would only be happy to welcome them gracefully.
After all, we still have the much cliched examples of the first ever
programmer (Lady Augusta Lovelace) and the developer of first ever
compiler for a computer programming language (Grace Murray Hopper)
being females, disproving any argument that female participation was
discouraged from the beginning. But in recent years, Computer Science
has the least number of females as compared to any other fields of
engineering.
> movement in Nepal. And because of few "spoiled attitude" we do not want
> females to be discouraged.
>
True. Noone wants. But again, what on earth are we to guess by "few
spoiled attitude" ? It would help if we started talking in clear,
binary terms.
> Thank you for sending the article, hope it will be an eye opener for most of
> the males and as well for females.
Lack of spirited and proportionate female participation will only
deprive Computer Science of that "other" perspective, that "other"
side of seeing and developing things, that female perspective. It
would only be beneficial to all concerned, if this happens sooner, and
better if we ourselves could be part of that change. But lets stop the
blame game. Lets stop acting like bully males and bargaining females.
At least professionally.
Yes, why not we start talking about it? There are some talks already
in world's most reputed educational and professional institutes about
female participation in our field. And there are some efforts and
special programs launched to encourage women in Computer Science. Lets
start something similar for our country as well.
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