These past months have been celebration-packed times… as always of course. But they’ve also been a period filled with news and information concerning women in open source and computing. So it still seems as though the subject is gaining more and more importance as time goes by. And this is fantastic news. Here in WoMoz [...]
Translated from Thierry Noisette’s French article published on ZDNet.fr, with the author’s authorization. Numbers are unflattering towards Open Source software: women represent 28% of proprietary software developers, against … 1,5 to 2% in Open Source software (see in particular the sources listed in Angela Byron (Drupal)’s excellent June presentation, PDF 139 pages: “Women in Open [...]
The Gender Gap in IT A digital divide between sexes in IT has been observed on both a European and world-wide scale (1), on one part concerning this field’s *use* (mainly in developing countries), but more precisely concerning its *mastering*.