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Discussion on: Where are all the womxn-owned open source projects?

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Cassidy Williams

I think a lot of it comes down to privilege unfortunately.

  1. Attitudes in open source are not always kind and rather demanding, and so when you're already underrepresented in an industry, it can be much more of a burden on you to "represent"
  2. Open source is unpaid work a grand majority of the time. The people who often can take on unpaid work are men who come from money.
  3. Similar to what @__masashi__ said too, women take on a disproportional amount of housework and domestic work as well that takes their time away, and OSS requires time.

All this being said, Astro (astro.build) has some women maintainers, and Vue.js as well. Angular, too. A lot are out there, just not nearly as prominent a lot of the time!