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<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title>Gender and Ethnicity</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="jargon.css" type="text/css"/><meta name="generator" content="DocBook XSL Stylesheets V1.61.0"/><link rel="home" href="index.html" title="The Jargon File"/><link rel="up" href="appendixb.html" title="Appendix B. A Portrait of J. Random Hacker"/><link rel="previous" href="politics.html" title="Politics"/><link rel="next" href="religion.html" title="Religion"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">Gender and Ethnicity</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="politics.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">Appendix B. A Portrait of J. Random Hacker</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="religion.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><div class="sect1" lang="en"><div class="titlepage"><div><div><h2 class="title" style="clear: both"><a id="demographics"/>Gender and Ethnicity</h2></div></div><div/></div><p>Hackerdom is still predominantly male. However, the percentage of women
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is clearly higher than the low-single-digit range typical for technical
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professions, and female hackers are generally respected and dealt with as
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equals.</p><p>In the U.S., hackerdom is predominantly Caucasian with strong minorities
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of Jews (East Coast) and Orientals (West Coast). The Jewish contingent has
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exerted a particularly pervasive cultural influence (see <a href="food.html" title="Food">Food</a>, above, and note that several common jargon terms
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are obviously mutated Yiddish).</p><p>The ethnic distribution of hackers is understood by them to be a
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function of which ethnic groups tend to seek and value education. Racial and
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ethnic prejudice is notably uncommon and tends to be met with freezing
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contempt.</p><p>When asked, hackers often ascribe their culture's gender- and
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color-blindness to a positive effect of text-only network channels, and this
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is doubtless a powerful influence. Also, the ties many hackers have to AI
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research and SF literature may have helped them to develop an idea of
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personhood that is inclusive rather than exclusive — after all, if one's
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imagination readily grants full human rights to future AI programs, robots,
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dolphins, and extraterrestrial aliens, mere color and gender can't seem very
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important any more.</p></div><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="politics.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="appendixb.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="religion.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">Politics </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> Religion</td></tr></table></div></body></html>
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