The project was an EU funded project, specifically researching Gender in FLOSS (Free Libre Open Source Software). 70 page report.

 http://www.flosspols.org/deliverables/FLOSSPOLS-D16-Gender_Integrated_Report_of_Findings.pdf

The conclusion of the report. The data was gathered with an online survey of 1000 people working in FLOSS. More then 100 answers of that were by womyn - "this is actually quite good".

one question was: "do you think that women are discriminated against in the free software community?"

the result was disturbing or astounding, 90% of men answered "no" and 90% of women answered "yes" to the question.

* "Women are actively (if unconsciously) excluded rather than passively disinterested. The effect lies within F/LOSS cultural and social arrangements. The exclusion happens among people who often do not mean to appear, and who do not interpret their own actions, as hostile to women. The effect is an outcome of the importance given to the individual as the sole carrier of agency."



HOWTO Encourage Women in Linux
Val Henson: 2002-10-29:
 http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/Encourage-Women-Linux-HOWTO/

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