Mar. 1st, 2013

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[personal profile] purplecat
I know this is a little off-topic, but as part of a last-minute crisis (long story) I need to put together a 15 minute presentation on the history of women in computing for a group of 6-10 year olds by wednesday.

I was just wondering if there were any stats for the proportion of female developers working on dreamwidth code? My intuition is that a good proportion of the developers are female. I'm hoping the talk won't be a series of "lone hero" women working in male dominated environments and so I'm emphasising the way that up until the 1970s there were a lot of women working as computers and programmers. It would be nice to also have some more recent examples of computing projects and workplaces which involve a lot of women.

Come to think of it, it doesn't have to be dreamwidth, if anyone has examples of places where, I guess, at least 25% of the programmers are female that would be awesome. It's only for a bullet point on the final slide so I don't need lots of detail.

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