For various reasons I've been studying policies on both community and
arbitration sanctions and looking at lists of such sanctions here:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:General_sanctions#Active_sanctions
Of particular interest is the recent arbitration
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Arbitration/Requests/Case/Sexology
which here :
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Arbitration/Requests/Case/Sexology#…
Specifies:
"Standard discretionary sanctions
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Arbitration_Committee/Discretionary_sanctions>
are authorized for all articles dealing with transgender issues and
paraphilia classification (e.g., hebephilia
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hebephilia>)."
From past postings here we know that editors who obviously are or admit
to being women have been insulted as women in very direct fashion; I'm
sure it must still go on today. (Searching WP:ANI I see "sexism" has
been brought up before and at least one openly sexist attack lead to a
block; I'm sure more research would find a few more.)
Anyway, I don't see any current issues that would lead to either a
request for community sanctions or for arbitration sanctions where
admins could levy a sanction on sexist behavior without someone having
to go through WP:ANI. But it is something to keep in mind should there
be a number of related issues at the same time.
Of course, if all the women who leave after the first time they get
insulted as women ''knew'' that they could go to ANI and at least get
the editor warned, and if they were supported by people who told them
about the process and how it works, there might be a lot more women
around. At the very least it's something we can do as individuals if we
see women editors attacked.
Of course, the problem is most of the behavior is more the subtle double
standard type where those perceived as women may get 30-40% more grief
than editors assumed to be men, or have their edits reverted more and
their concerns more generally ignored; however, the behaviors don't
quite reach the level where they could support a complaint.
I don't know if any of this is something that any of the Gender Gap
projects would want to address in a more organized fashion. But had it
in mind. Thanks.
CM in DC