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The name of the forum is Hacker News

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• fnordpiglet 3y ago
  And in the hacker community we’ve created such a hostile environment to women that despite half of humans being women, and women before the 80’s being well represented in the technology industry, there are basically no women. There are a lot of culture and history articles posted here, particularly of the bent of an interesting analysis of some obscura. I don’t mind women talking about women’s cultural topics and history, so long as it’s interesting new information, any more than I mind the posts about archeology or various ancient societies that are posted here and discussed regularly. Perhaps then we might get some more women hanging out with us. I personally find the monoculture in technical communities tedious, and the grief women get for asserting themselves in any way at all depressing. I just hope we can change all this before my daughter gets old enough to be excluded and taught her place is somewhere other than here.
  • thoaihfasdf 3y ago
    > Perhaps then we might get some more women hanging out with us. Have you had any luck with this? In my experience, women will stop hanging out once married or in an established long term relationship.
    • fnordpiglet 3y ago
      Hang out in online communities? Sure. Even married women have friendships outside the home. And technical forums tend to attract technically inclined women. But hangout for beers after work? Yeah that’s often mostly single men and women, or with spouses more understanding than mine ;-)