LADs and GALs was Re: [Consortium] linuxaudio abbreviation
Andrea Glorioso
sama at agnula.org
Sat Jan 31 10:42:25 EST 2004
iriXx <m at iriXx.org> writes:
> for a long time i felt it was LAD by name, LAD by nature. there are few
> women on the list, and all of us who have been there have found it
> difficult to get in to the group. i'm sure this is unintentional - but
> changing the name would help an awful lot in removing this image.
That's (very unfortunately) the general situation of women in
computing. I don't think that changing a name is going to change
long-standing (bad) habits, but if it in some way can help attract
more female users/developers/writers/whatever, I'm all for not using
the term "LAD".
<joking>
On the other hand, think about those poor guys whose name is male in
Italy but female in every other part of the world - we get treated as
females but we need to shave every morning just like males!
</joking>
bye,
andrea
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