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In all the decades of existing in this rock I don't think I've ever met a girl that was on linux. I just got sad. I mean it's also pretty difficult to find guys that are on linux anyway, but I know a few at least.
It could be a difference between Europe and the US. Here in Estonia it's pretty common for women to be in IT. Like the majority of the first level support at my current job are women. Higher tier teams are pretty evenly split too except the Microsoft team, they only have one woman currently.
Could be how tech gets marketed in Europe since I never felt that it was aimed at boys here but I have seen people in the US mention how it's basically aimed solely at boys.
That's an Estonia thing, not a Europe thing. Estonia is notorious for being the land of IT. In the rest of Europe, IT is heavily male-dominated. I just finished an IT tech/sysadmin training in France: out of 15 people, 3 were women, and it was probably one of the best ratio they've ever had. It seems there are a bit more women in the programming courses recently, though, but they're still a minority.
At my current job, out of a little over 100 people in various IT teams, 10 are women.
Ah, that explains the time when I worked for a company in Denmark and whenever everyone across Europe got together in the same room it was a massive sausage fest. I always though that was weird.
Yeah, I'm also in europe, so the gap in IT for girls is horrible. In the last decade more and more are seen in the area and that's amazing, but still much to do. When I was in university a few years ago, the year I entered there was 8 girls in the IT course compared to the hundreds of boys.
On the following year there were like 12 girls in the freshman.
So they were improving I guess.
Well at least some Europe countries are having more equal gender diversity in Germany there were only a few women who studied computer science and even fewer work in it.
I haven't met any girls who use Linux in real life, but I know a few online. They are out there.