Photo for 2013-12-14

PUBLISHED ON DEC 14, 2013 — IMPORTED FROM TUMBLR, PHOTO

http://codeblocks.tumblr.com/post/69952969647/hacker-news-has-44-of-its-users-in-the-18-24-age

Hacker News has 44% of its users in the 18-24 age bracket and is 77% male (Slashdot is 87% male, StackOverflow is 76%). Hacker News further has a well-documented history of hostility and abuse towards women, and posts that speak specifically to the experiences of women in tech have a tendency to be “disappeared” off (good job, Paulg). Meanwhile, sites like Reddit, while having technology channels like r/programming, are well-known to support misogynistic clusters that attack women en masse during high-visibility incidents of sexism.

(source - a different perspective on this beast known as The Internet)