Females in the community.

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On Thursday, 17 March 2016 at 22:02:47 UTC, WhatMeWorry wrote:
> On Thursday, 17 March 2016 at 20:03:08 UTC, John Carter wrote:
>>
>> https://www.gnome.org/outreachy/
>
> Google, Intel, HP, Bloomberg, etc are sponsoring this outreach. 
> D does not have any such luxury.
>
> Listen, I would love that more women were interested in 
> programming languages. I've seen many good women programmers 
> (my wife was one) but it is usually for a paid job.  I doubt 
> you'll find many women who program out of the sheer pleasure of 
> it, or who will spend their free time holed up in front of a 
> workstation figuring out the inner working of mixins or traits.
>
> But don't feel too bad. Females vastly outnumber men in the 
> veterinary and biology fields. I don't see their web sites 
> going out of their way to "welcome" me.

This is very true. I know that, particularly in academia, there 
is an enormous amount of additional funding to entice women to 
enter the STEM subjects, particularly engineering/computer 
science. I don't believe many, if any, other fields have similar 
outreach programs.

D's community is very open and welcoming, certainly focusing on 
merit above all.