[Gendergap] A pet peeve / cliche

Daniel and Elizabeth Case dancase at frontiernet.net
Wed Feb 9 17:00:20 UTC 2011


Lena wrote:

chances
are very good that there are a lot of women out there who would
benefit very much from a wysiwyg-editor.
Including me, my mother and my sister, by the way.

I comment:

I do remember that when the first Mac was introduced, bringing the GUI to 
the market, it did find a lot more female customers and regular users than 
any personal computer had up to that point (More male users, too, but the 
female user base grew by a much larger proportion).

Daniel Case 






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