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I'm sorry (and I'm so called woman in tech, if any), but shouldn't girls worry about WomenInTech trend? If everyone makes you a way because you're a Woman, not

by walsk 9y ago

I'm sorry (and I'm so called woman in tech, if any), but shouldn't girls worry about WomenInTech trend? If everyone makes you a way because you're a Woman, not a good engineer - is there anything good about this? Who cares about the picture, if these guys make nice laptops?

mitjak 9y ago
I'm not a woman but I think you're misunderstanding. It's about fair representation, not special treatment because you're a woman. Assuming that's a promo video, it's under-represented.
- slantyyz 9y ago
  The under-represented party in that video is the hardware. Humans (regardless of whether they are male, female or other) are over-represented in that video and they add no useful information to prospective buyers.
jorgemf 9y ago
I care because they are promoting an image that is not true. And you as a woman (I am not) should care about it too. Because the picture means that only men, regardless their nationality, can be linux nerds. I would be offended if I were a girl who is a linux nerd. The same way they added 4 nationalities, they could have added a woman. Because they didn't choose 4 random guys and get 4 different nationalities by chance.
vertex-four 9y ago
When everything a person sees says "people who are part of this community are men", it's driving women away from that community. When women visit my hackspace, they tend not to come back once they realise I'm the only other woman there and the culture is reasonably masculine. It sucks to feel like you don't belong. Ensuring that as many interested people as possible feel like they belong should be something that any subset of society thinks about, especially when publishing materials aimed at a broad audience. The issue, for the record, isn't a single material. If there wasn't a problem in the first place, there'd be nothing to criticise here, except for it feeling a bit out of place - the fact that not many people feel a bit odd about a marketing material targeted towards "Linux nerds" that only features men is a small piece evidence for said problem.

by walsk 9y ago

mitjak 9y ago

I'm not a woman but I think you're misunderstanding. It's about fair representation, not special treatment because you're a woman. Assuming that's a promo video, it's under-represented.

slantyyz 9y ago
The under-represented party in that video is the hardware. Humans (regardless of whether they are male, female or other) are over-represented in that video and they add no useful information to prospective buyers.

jorgemf 9y ago

I care because they are promoting an image that is not true. And you as a woman (I am not) should care about it too. Because the picture means that only men, regardless their nationality, can be linux nerds. I would be offended if I were a girl who is a linux nerd. The same way they added 4 nationalities, they could have added a woman. Because they didn't choose 4 random guys and get 4 different nationalities by chance.

vertex-four 9y ago

When everything a person sees says "people who are part of this community are men", it's driving women away from that community. When women visit my hackspace, they tend not to come back once they realise I'm the only other woman there and the culture is reasonably masculine. It sucks to feel like you don't belong. Ensuring that as many interested people as possible feel like they belong should be something that any subset of society thinks about, especially when publishing materials aimed at a broad audience. The issue, for the record, isn't a single material. If there wasn't a problem in the first place, there'd be nothing to criticise here, except for it feeling a bit out of place - the fact that not many people feel a bit odd about a marketing material targeted towards "Linux nerds" that only features men is a small piece evidence for said problem.