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Split up gender and ethnicity into separate entries

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Bob Mottram 2018-10-15 16:15:57 +01:00
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ethnicity
The ethnicity of hackers varies depending upon where you are and
it tends to follow whatever is normative for the region. So if you're
in Europe or North America it's overwhelmingly Caucasian. In those
areas anyone non-Caucasian tends to be kept out of commercial
software development due to entrenched discrimination.

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