gender & IT links

organisations

Women's Information Technogloy Transfer

Chicas Linux

Linux Chix

Gender IT

Take Back the Tech

 

useful articles

"A Carnival of Female Geeks", Patricia Jung & Yuwei Lin report on /etc 2007 in Linux Magazine.

"Things Can Break: Tech Women Crashing Computers and Preconceptions" - article by Aileen Derieg

"Gender Dimensions of Floss Development" - article by Yuwei Lin

"Situated software: fiction, action-at-a-distance and dolls" - article by Nancy Mauro-Flude

"Gender and Open Source" - article by Clancy Ratcliff

Response to Ratcliffe's article by Mairin

Women in Open Source - panel discussion at the 2005 O'Reilly Open Source Convention.

"Getting in touch with the feminine side of open source" - article by Jay Lyman A

discussion and response to the above article.

Encyclopedia of Gender and Information Technology edited by Eileen M. Trauth, College of Information Sciences and Technology, Pennsylvania State University.

"Sexism is alive and well, and it is driving women out of Linux", by Val Henson