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Máirín is a senior principal interaction designer at Red Hat. She is passionate about software freedom and free & open source tools, particularly in the creative domain: her favorite application is Inkscape (http://inkscape.org).
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Oh, here is some breaking news - MyPaint 1.1 was just released last week! Alexandre Prokoudine has a great summary at Libre Graphics World:
http://libregraphicsworld.org/blog/entry/mypaint-1.1.0-released
"Whose to say those directions are always going to be 50/50 gender distributed? "
This is clearly a straw man argument. There are definitely more women interested in STEM than are actively involved in STEM; whether or not we ever get to 50/50 (in either direction) I think matters less than improving the current status quo which is artifically balanced towards men's favor.