Hello all.
This thread, impressively talks about women and yet, is being held by a 95% of men. Probably you would do a better job if, instead wondering how women feel and what they might nor not do in an IT environment, if you took a minute to ask directly to the awesome women that we have in our community how they manage to contribute and yet, being awesome wifes/mothers/etc.
At India-women mail list we already recommend Mani to create a group more focused into worldwide female issues and discrimination since the ones of us who were reading her lately didn't felt that her bigger view was part of our believes, and since this is a free-of-speech environment, the best we can do is to help Mani to have this more focused group; however, this is far from what Fedora scope is. You are more than welcome to join the India-Women mail list and continue from there.
Now, to Fedora and ambassadors concerns; as some of you might know, I will be giving a talk at Flock (which I hope to be more like a debate and workshop) about women in Fedora (around the world, so all of us can learn about different stuff that happens depending on your region) and hopefully, in that talk, man can have a more real idea of what a women really have to live (the good and the bad) instead wondering what would be the best for us. Fedora women has been technically dead for a long time and the idea is not to revive the group, but to give it a real purpose and a guidelines + role models, instead creating rules on "how man have to treat women" or "how women have to react". Rules usually tend to make people get scared, so the idea is more to offer support.
I'm glad to see the interest, however, I'm sad to see that people only raise their voices when polemic strikes and not on the daily base of how women do on the IT world.