I think Julia needs to focus a little more on diversity and to that end encouraging women to create Julia Ladies/JLadies/not sure which name groups would be great! [image] How R-Ladies made data science inclusive The R programming community credits R-Ladies for increasing the number of w…

That’s an interesting article. Given the covid situation and the smaller number of users of Julia at the moment, I wonder if a virtual version would be a better place to start right now. Does R-Ladies have an online home?

I think I probably did it some times. Coming from (Brazillian) Portuguese, I need to be always attentive. Portuguese does not have a neutral gender and every single thing has an arbitrary female or male gender (not an exclusivity of Portuguese, I know). Obviously, Julia is only a specific case, many…

Inclusive? I think nobody cares about the gender (nor race) of the programmer. Everybody can use Julia freely.race

Unfortunately it is not that simple. Sexism in overt, structural, and implicit forms is very real and common, and it requires active work to combat.

I think that @joaoui1 raised a good point and we shouldn’t shut that discussion down. Can you split that branch of the discussion to its own thread?

Absolutely. The Julia project officially and firmly supports efforts towards improving diversity — it’s something we care about, measure, and work to improve . Let’s focus this thread on concrete ways in which we can improve — but before posting please consider how your post will be read by all her…

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Well Guido from Python offered to mentor women, I don’t have the details but I have proof he did ( https://twitter.com/gvanrossum/status/1043896961466798080?s=20 ) So mentorship would be a good beginning. Then probably encouraging the mentees to create “Julia Ladies” groups would probably help And …

I think it would be good to hear from women here: What is it that you think would help women programmers most? What is it that seems to hold women back? Are there some positive changes that seemed to have made a difference? (If so, we should know. If it works, that is great.) Are there some steps th…

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