So how can we measure what impact we're having on getting women to participate?<div><br></div><div>Over the next few months Wikimedia UK's very going to be adopting a rather more formal set of reporting procedures. I just wondered if people on this list had any thoughts about how we could build in some gender impact assessment into this reporting.</div>
<div><br></div><div>It should be fairly easy for the Board to ask for statistics on how many of the people attending events are men and how many are women. Ideally we would also have statistics on how many people attending events *who then go on to edit/join/otherwise take part* available by gender. It should be even easier to monitor the diversity of our staff (currently we have 2, both are male) and Wikimedians in Residence (also currently 2, both male) and indeed the board (err.... 7 men) - hopefully these statistics will be a bit better in a year's time. </div>
<div><br></div><div>Does anyone have any more thoughts on how we should approach this? </div><div><br></div><div>Regards,</div><div><br></div><div>Chris</div><div><br></div><div>PS. Also, you might be interested to know that we've identified a £10k budget for "broadening impact" - i.e. additional funding for projects which are aimed at women, Scotland, Wales, ethnic or linguistic minorities - I think this is a good thing but we do need to make sure the remaining £500k isn't spent only on white Englishmen ;-)</div>