Oh look, even without Stallman, the FSF has no issue in being a misogynistic hellhole.pic.twitter.com/pi4xY4HdkP
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I wonder if this systematic imbalance could be demonstrated elsewhere. In 2006, a study found that 1.5% people in free software were women, as opposed to ~28% in proprietary tech professions.https://www.yumpu.com/en/document/read/6079347/gender-integrated-report-of-findings-flosspols …
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In 2013, an open survey found this number closer to ~10%, still way behind commercial software. http://sci-hub.tw/https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-319-39225-7_13 …
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It's almost like a toxic culture has persisted for decades and the removal of one toxic man does not eliminate the problem.
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Please note that proprietary tech itself is widely acknowledged to have major issues with misogyny, from Google, to Microsoft, to just about everywhere. That free software is historically orders of magnitude worse should set off sirens.
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These graphs from the 2006 study are telling. Of free software contributors, only 20% of men have seen discriminatory behavior to women, while 80% of women have. Half of all women contributors to free software have been asked on a date, compared to 10% of men.pic.twitter.com/s7gUjRRZ44
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