I'm not drawing any conclusion, I just treat women, poc and LGBT people as, you know, PEOPLE. There's nothing that stops anybody from contributing repos to github.
Certainly it's not their gender or their race or whatever other social construct. If you don't have time it's because you don't find time, which means you don't have any interest in it. And, you know what? It's fine.
Are you saying that women or black people have a too busy agenda doing their <enter stereotype> stuff that they possibly cannot use github?
Please, if you want to talk about people not having enough opportunities to participate in github community, talk about people living in Nigeria, Tibet, North Korea. They surely have bigger problems. This has nothing to do with gender or race. No, not at all.
If we consider discrimination on the workplace, in the industry, at a job interview, then sure, I can agree with you. A woman might have a harder time being accepted in the industry (sadly), same goes for other minorities. But on github? Sorry, I'm not buying it.
> Are you saying that women or black people have a too busy agenda doing their <enter stereotype> stuff that they possibly cannot use github?
That's exactly what the article is saying:
> 52% of women caregivers with incomes at or below of the national median of $35k spend 20+ hours each week providing care. The largest racial demographics in this group are black and hispanic.
20+ hours a week caring for children, elders, or family members with some form of disability. Fair or not, it's expected that they'll do it.
> Due to additional pay inequity contributing to less access to paid childcare, women of color perform far more child care than white women.
They can't just pay someone else to do it. If they could afford a babysitter while they hack on some code in order to get a better-paying job, that would be awesome. But that's not realistic for a lot of people.
> On childcare alone, mothers spend more than twice as much time per day as fathers do.
Fathers are a lot more involved in raising children than they used to be, but mothers still get stuck with the bulk of the work.
Hell, I've lost 4-5 hours out of my week since I took up jogging. It's a big boost to my health and a way to keep life-long weight issues at bay, so I'm not complaining. But just taking on an additional "hobby" like that takes up the equivalent of half a work day.
Those poor helpless mothers, being "stuck with the bulk of the work". If only they were allowed to choose whether or not to have children, choose the father of their children, and negotiate with the aforementioned father their childcare arrangements before getting pregnant.
Sadly, we are discussing women in rural Pakistan who don't get to make these choices.
Instead of the tech community "giving back" to the poor and disadvantaged by trying to teach them all to use the shitty tools that we've cobbled together, maybe we should be asking if it is instead us who needs the education?
The sort of ignorant crap coming out of not only Morgawr's mouth but also a good number of people in our industry just shows how many of us have clearly never listened to a word that a disadvantaged or underprivileged person has ever said.
Certainly it's not their gender or their race or whatever other social construct. If you don't have time it's because you don't find time, which means you don't have any interest in it. And, you know what? It's fine. Are you saying that women or black people have a too busy agenda doing their <enter stereotype> stuff that they possibly cannot use github?
Please, if you want to talk about people not having enough opportunities to participate in github community, talk about people living in Nigeria, Tibet, North Korea. They surely have bigger problems. This has nothing to do with gender or race. No, not at all.
If we consider discrimination on the workplace, in the industry, at a job interview, then sure, I can agree with you. A woman might have a harder time being accepted in the industry (sadly), same goes for other minorities. But on github? Sorry, I'm not buying it.