Re: [Trisquel-users] How many Lesbian bisexuals, homosexuals and transensuals t are on the Trisquel forum?

[onpon4]

There are fewer women than men in IT. That's a fact. To say that this means  
women are "underrepresented" is not a "fact", it's a spurious conclusion  
which ignores the possibility that women might just not want to be in IT as  
much as men do. There are activities and industries dominated by women, too.

RMS was once asked something to the effect of whether or not he had ideas for  
getting more women to attend his talks. His response was that it doesn't  
really matter what gender those people are, and speculated that the lack of  
women might be because his talks were attracting technical people; perhaps,  
he said, something needed to be done to attract more non-technical people. I  
completely agree with this sentiment. Gender, ethic background, sexual  
orientation... none of this stuff matters.