Females in the community.

[QAston via Digitalmars-d]

On Thursday, 17 March 2016 at 20:03:08 UTC, John Carter wrote:
> It is very clear from the 'net that some communities welcome 
> woman, and some actively hate them, some ignore them.
Please link me to a single community (programming, os, library 
development) that hates women.

Ignoring women/men and other superficial divides is equal 
treatment. I'm a dog with brain and paw enchantments - nobody 
even has to know.

Welcoming everyone is the way to go. Focusing on specific groups 
is bias. Create a special program for women and now you have an 
unnecesary divide in your community.  Don't imply to women that 
they couldn't deal with other programmers outside of your little 
safe-space - that's degrading and not true. Focus on the 
commonalities - like hating C++ templates :).

> Part of me observes we are human first, programmers second, and 
> human groups with a healthy gender mix are simpler more 
> pleasant and functional places.
>
[Citation needed] What's the right mixture of people? Are biology 
departments and engineering departments less functional and 
pleasant than departments with more equal distribution? Do you 
really notice the gender behind nicknames and does it really 
affect your pleasure from participating in this newsgroup? Sorry 
to break your bubble but women are every bit as capable of being 
unpleasant as men are. Ah, and they sometimes fart too.