Hi!. First, I  apologize for my English .. I do not use it very much and have it "rusty" XD. IMHO, we need more information to analyze correctly the matter, since the case of the women is not the same in the USA that in the old Europe or in the emergent countries. I think perhaps a worldwide estatistic, made by  a specialized enterprise,  was helping us to have a more wide vision. Every Chapter can to take charge doing a questionnaire with the questions most adapted to his social reality and giving it  to the Statistics enterprise. They are only ideas.. --- El jue, 10/2/11, gendergap-request(a)lists.wikimedia.org <gendergap-request(a)lists.wikimedia.org> escribió: De: gendergap-request(a)lists.wikimedia.org <gendergap-request(a)lists.wikimedia.org> Asunto: Gendergap Digest, Vol 1, Issue 48 Para: gendergap(a)lists.wikimedia.org Fecha: jueves, 10 de febrero, 2011 00:27 Send Gendergap mailing list submissions to     gendergap(a)lists.wikimedia.org To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit     https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/gendergap or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to     gendergap-request(a)lists.wikimedia.org You can reach the person managing the list at     gendergap-owner(a)lists.wikimedia.org When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific than "Re: Contents of Gendergap digest..." Today's Topics:    1. Re: [Gendergap : A suggestion: Towards 100.000 F.    articles in       Wikipedia (patricia morales)    2. Re: [Gendergap : A suggestion: Towards 100.000 F. articles in       Wikipedia (Oliver Keyes)    3. Re: Mailing list code of conduct (phoebe ayers)    4. Re: Women Post month (SlimVirgin)    5. Fwd: Gender preference (Brandon Harris)    6. Re: Fwd: Gender preference (Oliver Keyes)    7. Re: Fwd: Gender preference (Steven Walling) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message: 1 Date: Wed, 9 Feb 2011 13:57:44 -0800 (PST) From: patricia morales <mariadelcarmenpatricia(a)yahoo.com> Subject: Re: [Gendergap] [Gendergap : A suggestion: Towards 100.000 F.     articles in Wikipedia To: Increasing female participation in Wikimedia projects     <gendergap(a)lists.wikimedia.org> Message-ID: <193543.75897.qm(a)web161817.mail.bf1.yahoo.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Everyone is very welcome!I would like to explain what I trying to say. The idea was only to emphasise the participatory role of women in this process.?There are several historical gaps (black people, women, young people, "underdeveloped" countries, ea.) and suddenly people want to solve them, and at the same time exclude the group to be benefited in the process. Patricia --- On Wed, 2/9/11, ChaoticFluffy <chaoticfluffy(a)gmail.com> wrote: From: ChaoticFluffy <chaoticfluffy(a)gmail.com> Subject: Re: [Gendergap] [Gendergap : A suggestion: Towards 100.000 F. articles in Wikipedia To: "Increasing female participation in Wikimedia projects" <gendergap(a)lists.wikimedia.org> Date: Wednesday, February 9, 2011, 1:43 PM I agree with Oliver - a female-friendly space need not, and should not, be a space with no males allowed. It should simply be one with everyone behaving in a manner friendly to females, and there's nothing in that that says at least some men are unwilling or unable to do that. If we start gating off areas of the wiki, we're not doing women any favors. -Karen On Wed, Feb 9, 2011 at 4:29 PM, Oliver Keyes <scire.facias(a)gmail.com> wrote: On Wed, Feb 9, 2011 at 9:26 PM, patricia morales <mariadelcarmenpatricia(a)yahoo.com> wrote: It seems very interesting to create a female-friend space for overcoming gradually the gendergap. Some women would like to participate suggesting new topics, their interests (for example more articles on the women?s role in the African microeconomy, or female Nobel Awards, etc). They can provide some opinions or suggestions on the undercovered male-oriented use of language in articles or pictures of Wikipedia, etc. I believe that the leadership of this process has to be in various female hands, taking solidarity as a major principle. When we take a look at history, we can see that women primarily avoid the use of violence and war. Matriarcal peoples or ctonic religions (where there is an identification between the Earth and the woman) are interesting examples. The thing that worries me about this suggestion is that it's effectively sectioning off and segregating a portion of wikipedia's community. Solidarity is all well and good, but if the idea is to encourage more women to get involved in the community, the answer can't be to disect that community. _______________________________________________ Gendergap mailing list Gendergap(a)lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/gendergap -----Inline Attachment Follows----- _______________________________________________ Gendergap mailing list Gendergap(a)lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/gendergap