i never saw the page linked either, but i think these links are what people are discussing: this cpan module - http://search.cpan.org/dist/Acme-CPANAuthors-Fem

i never saw the page linked either, but i think these links are what people are discussing: this cpan module - http://search.cpan.org/dist/Acme-CPANAuthors-Female/ http://search.cpan.org/dist/Acme-CPANAuthors-Female/ - included this file - https://github.com/sharyanto/perl-Acme-CPANAuthors-Female/blob/master/lib/Acme/CPANAuthors/Female.pm https://github.com/sharyanto/perl-Acme-CPANAuthors-Female/bl... (some data also visible in cpan synopsis - http://search.cpan.org/dist/Acme-CPANAuthors-Female/lib/Acme/CPANAuthors/Female.pm http://search.cpan.org/dist/Acme-CPANAuthors-Female/lib/Acme...) - which was later dropped by the author, steven haryanto - http://blogs.perl.org/users/steven_haryanto/2012/07/so-apparently-this-is-creepy.html http://blogs.perl.org/users/steven_haryanto/2012/07/so-appar... the file in question lists 10 (or 11) female contributors to cpan.