GitHub Graciously Helps Female Programmers

[abarbarian]

http://www.thepowerbase.com/2013/04/github-graciously-helps-female-programmers-cower-in-fear/

 

In an effort to help increase female participation in open source development, the Ada Initiative recently announced they had entered into an agreement with social programming site GitHub, wherein any female who requested a private repository on the service could receive one free of charge (a feature which usually costs $7+ per month).

 

 

Make no mistake, the goals of the Ada Initiative are honorable enough. There is no question that the gender ratio is strongly skewed towards males, which is something that clearly needs to be addressed. But advising policies which segregate development into male and female categories is certainly not the right approach.

 

A very interesting article indeed.