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Ask HN: How often women read HN? Participate?
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#2Every day.
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#3No one woman reads HN ;)
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#4My wife reads it quite a bit. She isn't a tech, but she likes seeing what we all say about stories so we can talk about it later
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#5I expect that not very many women will out themselves in response to your question, considering how much negative attention such an outing often results in.
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#6daily
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#7I expect that not very many women will out themselves in response to your question, considering how much negative attention such an outing often results in.
What are you talking about? Can you cite an example?
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#8Maybe someone should set up a comprehensive census for HN?
Note: I do not mean someone should set up a page long google form that asks for age and gender. I mean someone who has at least a small amount of experience with census' should set up a detailed and lengthy census which asks questions with nuance. I don't think I have the capability to do this, or I would.
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#9I expect that not very many women will out themselves in response to your question, considering how much negative attention such an outing often results in.
What are you talking about? Can you cite an example?
I suspect he means on the internet in general. If you find it hard to believe I'd point you toward #3 at http://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2014/10/30/5-facts-abou...
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#10I expect that not very many women will out themselves in response to your question, considering how much negative attention such an outing often results in.
What are you talking about? Can you cite an example?
Quick example from [1]:
"After sifting through near to three million pull requests submitted on GitHub, they found – against their expectations – that code written by women was approved at a slightly higher rate than that composed by men, 78.6 percent to 74.6 percent, respectively. That’s roughly an extra 120,000 pieces of code.
"Nevertheless, there was a depressing caveat: this rule only applied if their gender was unidentified. If female coders’ gender was known, their overall pull request acceptance rate fell from 78.6 percent to 62.5 percent. This appears to suggest that women may in fact be better coders, but are automatically discriminated against simply because of their gender."
Apart from that, there are endless examples of women being harassed, stalked, assaulted, and even killed because of their gender. Is it any wonder that many might prefer not to reveal their gender and enjoy the benefits of relative equality when they have the ability to do so, such as in an online forum like HN?
Really, you'd have to be living in a cave not to be aware of the existence of sexual harassment. Just on HN, articles about it float to the front page at least one or twice a month, which is why I really have to wonder if you are just trolling by asking that question.
[1] - http://www.iflscience.com/technology/women-are-seen-better-c...