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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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Here's one of them:
http://asherwolf.net/dear-hacker-community-we-need-to-talk/101/
" Policewomen exist now, but they're only 11.8% of the force. What are the reasons?"
This is an interesting question too. There was recently a series of interviews with the new female Congress members, as we've the best female:male gender ratio in US Congress history now. Apparently there was no separate mens' and ladies' room on the house floor, and a ladies room had to be built for the latest session... in fields that are traditionally male, I wonder if some of the issues discouraging women from entering the field revolve around the environment not supporting them even for basics like having an accessible gendered bathroom.