Where is your evidence that "You can look at the pipeline of programmers and you will see a demographic pretty similar to open source"? You described your coun

Where is your evidence that "You can look at the pipeline of programmers and you will see a demographic pretty similar to open source"? You described your country's employment statistics, although without evidence. You haven't listed the breakdown of gender representation in your country's OSS participation, so there's nothing to compare. And "Europe" is rather diverse region. As counter-evidence, I point you to https://blog.honeypot.io/women-in-tech-germany/ https://blog.honeypot.io/women-in-tech-germany/ which claims women make up 16.58% of IT in Germany, and that percentage is lower than 15 other European countries. To be sure, I can't vouch for the quality of that research, but so far you have presented none. > they just decide themselves against it Again, where is your evidence. I have already in this thread listed reasons for why women (who have more pressure to be unpaid care givers) and the working poor (which in the US is correlated with minority status) may have LESS choice than average, so saying "just decide themselves" ignores the factors which go into that decision. > "It is pretty much exactly mirrors in the CS pipeline." Evidence please. Since the citations I gave show otherwise. > it doesn't allow for the conclusion that were drawn Which specific conclusions do you disagree with and what evidence do you have besides your personal observations and biases?