It depends. I don't think you can generalise and say that gender is the distinction here; rather, it's a distinction of interests and norms. I recommend <a href="http://www.mindspillage.org/wiki/Women_on_Wikipedia">http://www.mindspillage.org/wiki/Women_on_Wikipedia</a> as a good read. " the culture is not biased
against women, but rather biased toward certain traits and against
others--and that generally men are more likely to be in the group
whose characteristics are more accepted"; in other words, we could have an identical culture if 85 percent of the editors were female, they'd just be a very specific subset of women.<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">
On Thu, Feb 17, 2011 at 10:06 PM, Collective Action <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:collective_action@hotmail.com">collective_action@hotmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
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It has occurred to me to wonder what Wikipedia would look like if 85% of its editors were female?<br><br><br>
regards<br>
Rosie Williams<br>
<a href="http://women4wikipedia" target="_blank">http://women4wikipedia</a><br>
@collectiveact<br><br><br> </div>
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