Re: [boost] GNOME outreachy

Subject: Re: [boost] GNOME outreachy
From: degski (degski_at_[hidden])
Date: 2018-08-26 05:10:56

On Sat, 25 Aug 2018 at 15:31, Pranam Lashkari via Boost <
boost_at_[hidden]> wrote:

> > Here I believe that girls are raised differently than men and that's the
> main cause of interest in different fields but maybe if we participate in
> Google Code In we will have much younger contributors and if we get people
> interested in C++ at a younger age maybe it can solve the problem of gender
> imbalance in current C++ industry.
>

You are missing the point, "trying to get more women to participate" is a
misguided objective, IMO. Not, because I don't like or want them, but
because I think that if women are/would be interested they will/would
participate. What I dislike about it that it treats women as if they are
somehow handicapped or not able to fend for themselves, which I think is
discriminatory in it own right.

degski
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