@o_guest regarding your earlier tweets on the horrendously bad diversity in tech, do ideas like this help? Do they work?https://twitter.com/EFF/status/877938527488450560 …
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I don't know if this works, but it's encouraging.
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Replying to @o_guest @LargeCardinal
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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Distressing!! Does this account for offshoot of other disciplines eg data analytics, biotech etc?
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No idea sadly, but here's some happy-making related tweet:https://twitter.com/ThePracticalDev/status/878216061799211008 …
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