<div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Dec 1, 2011 at 7:23 AM, emijrp <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:emijrp@gmail.com">emijrp@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote style="margin: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex; border-left-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-left-width: 1px; border-left-style: solid;" class="gmail_quote">
<div class="gmail_quote"><div class="im">2011/12/1 Carol Moore <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:carolmooredc@verizon.net" target="_blank">carolmooredc@verizon.net</a>></span><br>
<blockquote style="margin: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex; border-left-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-left-width: 1px; border-left-style: solid;" class="gmail_quote">Fundraising from women is an interesting topic. You may think comments<br>
about sexism and the Wikipedia community are nonsense, but guess what.<br>
Women who take a lot of sexist nonsense AT wikipedia sure aren't going<br>
to donate TO wikipedia, are they?<br>
<br>
Also, since women in general are busier with work AND family<br>
responsibilities, so often the women who have the most time to edit are<br>
unemployed, disabled, retired or otherwise on limited incomes. <br></blockquote></div><div><br>[citation needed]<br><br>Furthermore, editing Wikipedia only requires 30 minutes a day/week. I'm sure all women waste more time watching TV. But watching TV is funnier for most the people.<br>
<br>In the other hand, looks like women in all ages have time to waste in Facebook
<a href="http://www.kenburbary.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/Image1_thumb3.png" target="_blank">http://www.kenburbary.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/Image1_thumb3.png</a> And gender balance is fifty-fifty.<br></div></div>
</blockquote><div> </div><div> The above statement about the women who have the time to edit WP is patently false, and not my experience with the women I see around the project. Most of those women are single and childless; I think that I may be the only serious WP content editor who is married and has children, or at least the only one I know about. The above statement also buys into the stereotype that we're trying to combat in WP.</div>
<div> </div><div>I think it's true that most women are busy with homes and family, and they choose to volunteer their time in other ways. I volunteer in other ways, too, and my interests in WP match my interests in home and family. I spend an average of 30 minutes a day editing, and I think of it as both a creative outlet and as a way to volunteer. I wonder if WP editing were presented to women in that way it would make a difference.</div>
<div> </div><div>Want to make the world a better place? Edit Wikipedia! ;)</div><div> </div><div>Christine</div><div>Username: Figureskatingfan</div></div>