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Re:Diversity in Technology and Open Source by brighteyes on Monday June 05, 2017 @12:09PM (#14488689)
To really understand the issue, you need to look at all the facts. And yes, while women are underrepresented in open source, LGBT people are overrepresented - almost double their percentage in the general population in fact (7% vs 4%).

So any theory of "open source drives away women" has to explain why it has the opposite effect on LGBT people. There isn't going to be a simple answer there and maybe we aren't even asking the right questions yet.

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Re:Diversity in Technology and Open Source by HelloNurse on Monday June 05, 2017 @01:22PM (#14489390)
There's no conflict, it depends on whether these LGBT people are women. I suspect that few lesbian, bisexual, transgender women follow the typical social patterns that keep women away from open source software: few uneducated housewives, few early marriages and unplanned pregnancies interfering with education and work, little inclination in general for taking care of household chores sacrificing themselves so that their S.O. has some free time for open source work, few and/or late children, etc.
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