diff --git a/entries/ethnicity.txt b/entries/ethnicity.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..45a9792 --- /dev/null +++ b/entries/ethnicity.txt @@ -0,0 +1,7 @@ +ethnicity + +The ethnicity of hackers varies depending upon where you are and +it tends to follow whatever is normative for the region. So if you're +in Europe or North America it's overwhelmingly Caucasian. In those +areas anyone non-Caucasian tends to be kept out of commercial +software development due to entrenched discrimination. \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/entries/Gender and Ethnicity.txt b/entries/gender.txt similarity index 50% rename from entries/Gender and Ethnicity.txt rename to entries/gender.txt index 4e1c04f..c87690e 100644 --- a/entries/Gender and Ethnicity.txt +++ b/entries/gender.txt @@ -1,13 +1,7 @@ -Gender and Ethnicity +gender Currently (2018) about 25% women in commercial software development. FOSS projects are more difficult to assess due to the common use of pseudonyms, but the percentage is probably similar. Before 1970 people writing software code were more like 50% women or above, and this early change in gender composition has now been well documented. - -The ethnicity of hackers varies depending upon where you are and -it tends to follow whatever is normative for the region. So if you're -in Europe or North America it's overwhelmingly Caucasian. In those -areas anyone non-Caucasian tends to be kept out of commercial -software development due to entrenched discrimination. \ No newline at end of file