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<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial></FONT><BR>Oh, please. The reason women don’t
contribute to Wikipedia is that we have more pressing things to do. I
would love to elaborate, but I have to finish the laundry, pay the bills,
feed the cat, clean the apartment, and do the meal planning and grocery
shopping before I head off to work.<BR><BR>Alice Henry Whitmore<BR>New York,
Jan. 31, 201<BR></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>This was a common theme in <EM>many</EM> of the
comments on the Room for Debate posts.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>Looking at some of the larger social trends around
this, I seem to recall reading that (in the US at least), the Great Recession
has resulted, for the first time since anyone's been measuring, more men than
women losing their jobs. Or, in the case of new graduates, not getting them at
all.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>Since it seems to be an accepted aspect of
Wikipedia history that the site got its initial editor boost from
newly-unemployed dot-commers with the time to kill, I wonder if the current
gender imbalance at least partly reflects that. Is there any data on gender
differences as to how unemployed people are likely to spend their time when
they're not looking for work (or when they've become [[discouraged
worker]]s.)?</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>Daniel Case</FONT></DIV>
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