Last time 5 of ~35 applicants were women, and 2 in class of 15. This time 0 women in 13 apps so far
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I'm saving scholarship resources for those in financial need. I don't think money is what keeps women from exploring blogging of this kind
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Are you sure about that? Money is one of the things that keeps women out of open source and speaking, esp. if they do (free) child support
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Yup, pretty sure. They may be more stressed for time, but not for money at this level.
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Easier to justify taking four hours to write a blog post if you can hire someone to do grocery shopping with the cash you earn from it1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes -
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Don't discount the guilt women are socialised to feel about neglecting domestic labour.
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I'm talking course fee, not pay for blogging, which I do for contributors
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I'd think that would make it even more relevant? I'm basing my assumptions on things Ashe Dryden has talked about wrt AlterConf...
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Replying to @damian0815 @vgr
Again back to open source - the Processing Foundation get really great diverse open source submissions but primarily because they pay for it
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I don't think that's really comparable. Writing and open source projects have different psychologies.
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