2014-04-26 14:52:28 +00:00
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Gender and Ethnicity
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2018-10-15 14:47:17 +00:00
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Currently (2018) about 25% women in commercial software development.
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FOSS projects are more difficult to assess due to the common use of
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pseudonyms, but the percentage is probably similar. Before 1970
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people writing software code were more like 50% women or above, and
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this early change in gender composition has now been well documented.
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2014-04-26 15:54:15 +00:00
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2018-10-15 14:47:17 +00:00
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The ethnicity of hackers varies depending upon where you are and
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it tends to follow whatever is normative for the region. So if you're
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in Europe or North America it's overwhelmingly Caucasian. In those
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areas anyone non-Caucasian tends to be kept out of commercial
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software development due to entrenched discrimination.
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