[sudo-discuss] [dorkbotsf-blabber] Question about gender diversity in the makerspace.

[David Rorex]

Do you have either of the two data points mentioned? Gender makeup of
dues-payers, and gender-makeup of people with door access? I too am curious
about the makeup of our community.


On Mon, Apr 22, 2013 at 12:24 PM, Anthony Di Franco <di.franco at gmail.com>wrote:

> A serious complication to our putting a specific number on this in a
> data-based way is that our concept of membership is vague and largely
> informal.
> Regular dues-payers is probably the closest we have but that is also
> explicitly not a membership requirement in itself and there are notable
> exceptions that make it clearly incorrect strictly speaking.
> People with rfid door access might also work with similar caveats.
> On Apr 22, 2013 12:20 PM, "Patrik D'haeseleer" <patrikd at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Forwarding this to sudoroom in oakland, who also seem to have a fairly
>> good F/M ratio - not 50/50, but better than I've seen in most techie
>> fields. And of course HackerMoms in Berkeley is completely women-run as
>> well.
>>
>> Patrik
>>
>>
>> On Mon, Apr 22, 2013 at 9:07 AM, Dan Novy <novysan at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Hey, Dorks, we're having a discussion about gender diversity in the
>>> makerspace and I'm hearing from many east coast spaces that they're about
>>> 90/10 Male to Female ratio. Coming from the west coast I don't know if we
>>> truly had a higher percentage or not but it sure seemed so. Just so I have
>>> some rough numbers, what would some of you who are members of groups like
>>> SRL, NIMBY, Crucible, Ship Yard, Noisebridge, and especially the Flaming
>>> Lotus Girls. I seem to remember a lot of female participation and
>>> leadership. Any guesses?
>>>
>>> Thanks.
>>>
>>> NovySan
>>>
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