Ashe Dryden merely lists some personal choices of women (cleaning their house more, taking care of children), and some unrelated statistics about women in general. If she did somehow draw a causal link between those activities and not using github (she doesn't), it would imply that women should also be absent from Facebook, Pinterest and Instagram. They aren't.
The second link is merely an animated gif of an octopuss.
The only point the third article makes is based on the implicit and unproven assumption that merit is uniformly distributed.
None of those articles remotely attempt to show that women are prevented from using github.
> If she did somehow draw a causal link between those activities and not using github (she doesn't), it would imply that women should also be absent from Facebook, Pinterest and Instagram. They aren't.
Wait a minute, are you seriously trying to advance the argument that software development (the purpose of github) is as mentally similar as browsing the web for pictures of cakes (the purpose of Pinterest, as far as I can tell)?
Not sure if serious or trolling.
E: jcoglan is doing referer: madness, copy/paste the URL or bang refresh.
Ashe Dryden merely lists some personal choices of women (cleaning their house more, taking care of children), and some unrelated statistics about women in general. If she did somehow draw a causal link between those activities and not using github (she doesn't), it would imply that women should also be absent from Facebook, Pinterest and Instagram. They aren't.
The second link is merely an animated gif of an octopuss.
The only point the third article makes is based on the implicit and unproven assumption that merit is uniformly distributed.
None of those articles remotely attempt to show that women are prevented from using github.