"JOAQUIN LOPEZ MU?Z" <joaquin@tid.es> writes: [snip]
Whatever the reason, it is a fact that women are severely misrepresented in the Boost community. If only from a practical point of view, we're somehow missing the opportunity to double our target market. If we work on the assumption that women are as valuable potential contributors as men are, then the only reasonable conclusion is that some aspects of the Boost culture are raising an unintentional entry barrier to that segment. We can just ignore the problem on the grounds of non-intrusiveness, or we can study the issue and see if we can improve things.
I doubt that it has much, if anything to do with aspects of Boost culture, and rather has almost everything to do with the fact that the vast majority of C++ programmers are men. -- Jeremy Maitin-Shepard