3Qs: In 'free culture' online, where are the women?
Tuesday, March 26, 2013 - 09:30
in Mathematics & Economics
Though women make up only about 27 percent of the computing community, they are even more underrepresented in the "free culture" movement, which comprises users and developers of websites like Wikipedia and the Linux operating system. In "Free As In Sexist?," a paper published earlier this year, assistant professor of communication studies Joseph Reagle explained why.