On Tue, Mar 15, 2011 at 4:09 PM, Amy Roth <aroth(a)wikimedia.org> wrote:
This list is a direct invitation for women to voice
the issues they have
on Wikipedia and many have done that. It seems to me that the men who are
active on this list join the conversation in an effort to find out what
issues female editors face and how they can help.
This is my opinion only... but I'm very much for female empowerment. We
create our own power. Having men involved as supporters is great but at the
same time, I feel some of the male posters are not actually interested in
finding out our issues, nor do they seem to be organising events to get
female participation to increase. And if I had a male come up to me and say
"We want to increase female participation! Join now!" I'd kind of back
away... my feeling is that if you need men to be advocates for women in a
situation like this, the whole system is so inherently flawed that it isn't
worth joining or fixing. If it really was great, then they'd have female
spokes people, they'd have women doing these things. My personal opinion is
male involvement hurts credibility in the movement, and female leadership
brings credibility to it.
Plus, the ratio of male posting to female posting for a while was kind of
very "What's going on here? I thought this list was trying to encourage
women to become involved with Wikipedia and something has failed because
even on the list dedicated to the topic, men continue to dominate the
conversation."
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