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Because she think women are more happy by marrying and having kids. She is happier that way so she assume all women are the same.
by jp_sc 15y ago
Because she think women are more happy by marrying and having kids. She is happier that way so she assume all women are the same.
- rodw 15y agoI'm not sure that Ms. Trunk's biography is especially relevant to her argument here, but that's not it. She's been very public and candid about her personal life (quite possibly overly so), if you want to look into it.
- drumdance 15y agoShe has written very candidly about how uneven her personal life is. In particular she's written about the research arguing that having children lowers overall happiness for both men and women (but particularly women).
- einhverfr 15y agoI didn't read it that way at all. I read her as saying "we know we can do it, so if we aren't doing it, we don't want to be doing it, so leave us alone." One thing I have noticed in open source work is that men tend to be willing to take on more risk than women when it comes to projects. Computer development personnel are, in the corporate world, about 1/3 women but less than one out of fifty developers in open source is a woman. Those women who are in open source tend to get there through a paying job, while for men, we tend to possibly find a job through work in open source. What this tells me is that women are choosing different approaches and different paths. It's not that they can't. It's that they don't want to. Another complaint I have heard over and over from women in open source is that there is nothing more annoying than being asked over and over "so what do we need to do to attract more women into our field?" There is a similar sense of frustration expressed in the article.