[okfn-discuss] Women comfortable at speaking at events...

Mon Nov 25 19:20:04 UTC 2013

This is worthwhile. I suspect that the lack of women speaking at
technology related events is effect rather than cause though. By all
means find everyone that you can for speaking engagements, but the
cause might be addressed much earlier. Primary school, say, or at
least secondary school. Schools in general are pretty poor at teaching
about technology and maybe if that can be done better and not
introduce a subtle bias early on, maybe in a generation we'll start to
see substantial change.

Are there any initiatives within the OKF specifically for
schoolchildren? 

-w