- Probably? Interesting empirical study based on probabilities and wild guesses.

- Only because YOU are not able to attract more significant others doesn’t mean they are in the way of others.

- If you still haven’t figured out that girlfriends and wives are de-facto the driving factor in this community do some research.

Well out of those few responses I must admit most of them are rather aggressive. This is probably due to the fact that I get annoyed daily by people either bashing women or in some other way making fun of them just because they think they can.

Obviously most people haven’t really thought this through and more importantly tried to get partners involved in HackerSpaces.

Integrating family and your close relationships into Hackerspaces is fun. And the easiest to do that is in Demoing your project once it is completed and asking those attending how you could further either improve it or even mod it (depending on the Project of course)

And diversity does play a huge role as well. I guess it is obvious if you restrict your self to one highly-technical domain, those involved will be mostly men.

And that by far is not because women would not be capable but simply because for centuries we have been taught that Technical “stuff” is for boys and the fancy shiny stuff for girls.

Seems pretty clear that we need to further change in that area by providing counter measures to this trend (which still exists)

Also the assumption that Hackers are always Hetero is a silly one. But I guess that is simply because humans are human and we need to further explore the other aspects of our society and not assume that the CURRENT social norms are “normal” – Whatever normal is…

From Luxembourg with Love,

Steve

In the closest example I personally know of to that model, the woman was in fact a trained bookkeeper and as farmers and small business owners, the house ran on a perfect double-entry ledger. She could have hidden a lot of things (not being a sitcom character, I don’t think she did). The man outlived the woman and had to be taught by his sons how to pay bills and read his bank statements.

Which reminds me…Fred and Ricky referred to Lucy and Ethel as “the girls” quite a lot for women in their 30s.

Hopefully, many couples have sorted this out and their hackerspace buddies insist on seeing their actions through an outdated lens because the alternative implies that something about the hackerspace could be improved.

http://monochrom.at/hacking-the-spaces/

Cheers
Johannes, monochrom

I think you bring up a point that touches on the larger question a hand. Which is, how do we as people find to make the most of our hackerspace/whatever else in life?

I think you could really say: ‘The biggest enemy of xxxx is probably insertBigTimeInvestmentHere.’

I’m still have a bunch of projects hanging on the shelf at the Node, I can only hope that I can get in there soon to finish them.

(Nonwithstanding, OP obvious views his relationship with his SO as being at odds with his hobbies and so maybe he should consider finding a new SO)