Wow! I just found out about LinuxChix. http://linuxchix.orgHow did I find out about LinuxChix? I was adding some more HOW-TO documents to my Linux machine and noticed one I'd never seen before: "Encourage-Women-Linux-HOWTO.html". It was written by Val Henson of LinuxChix.
It is a very interesting article. I recommend everybody (male or female) who is interested in more women becoming involved in Linux, in particular, or computing, in general, to read it.
You can find it online as multiple html pages:
http://tldp.org/HOWTO/Encourage-Women-Linux-HOWTO/index.html
or a text document:
http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/docs/HOWTO/Encourage-Women-Linux-HOWTO