I don't know if this works, but it's encouraging.
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I'm not from a culture where people think maths and STEM in general is for boys, so I've less experience growing up w male geek stereotype.
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Aye - and my concern is that good (read; non-patronising) initiatives take ~25yrs to show some real change.
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And it is a concern because our funding for these things is usually in the 2-5yr span...You're right: a fundamental cultural shift is needed
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My home culture is incredibly sexist btw just not with respect to subjects /fields having gender. Agreed with you on above.
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To clarify though, the OSS community has even fewer women and ethnic and other diversities than tech more broadly. So the failures are not
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only those from childhood but occurring right now to adults.
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I did some digging with
@HollyGraceful some time ago, and found many variants of this graph. There is a distinct decline in both the...pic.twitter.com/EsT2tt6hLy
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of women in tech and the number of women taking degrees in tech since the early 80's, and I can't think what changed. And yes, OSS is...
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considerably worse. But we had some real luminaries such as Katherine G. Johnson, and now we find ourselves in such a bad state.
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Depressing stuff.
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