On Wednesday, February 8, 2017 4:17:18 PM CET Michael Stefaniuc wrote:
That's an old cliche, still wrong.
Maybe, but I'm not sure about that.
Meanwhile, women account for 23 percent of all computer programmers and 39.5 percent of web developers, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics."
According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, 21% out of 480 computer programmers are female. According to a stackoverflow survey however, 5-12% of all developers are female: http://stackoverflow.com/research/developer-survey-2016 That makes the 11 percent of open source contributors that are women a fairly good ratio.
https://www.linux.com/blog/how-bring-more-women-free-and-open-source-softwar e "Currently 25 percent of all software developers are women, but only 3 percent work in free and open source software."
Couldn't find a citation for that number, it also conflicts with your other number, that's nearly 1/4.
Again, I'd welcome it if there were more women in IT / open source, but if you do an outreach, why not for everyone? That would be more inclusive, and you still could make clear that you also address women.
Regards, Fabian Maurer