So much of the open source community really is toxic for women … and even in situations that aren’t so bad, there are still major barriers.
It’s a little old, but Christina Dunbar-Harris’ Hacking Diversity is really excellent, not just about the challenges but about different approaches to making progress, including discussions of feminist servers and feminist hacker meet-ups as well as codes of conduct. One of her important observations that I quote a lot in the fediverse context is that the interpretations and norms of openness on which open source rests often run counter to the goal of providing more safety.
