On Wed, Feb 2, 2011 at 5:01 PM, Fred Bauder fredbaud@fairpoint.net wrote:
Differential participation is easy to explain. Editors are self-selected volunteers; aspects of our chapter and other organizational activities such as boards involve people who are chosen, and hiring is, by both law and preference, non-discriminatory. In each step as you move from self-selection to deliberate choice there is more opportunity to select women and plenty of active qualified people to chose. Equal opportunity has become ingrained in our culture.
Might be true of boards and staff to some extent, but I don't think it is so relevant for real-life initiatives. Those usually come through with the people who come forward and decide they're going to do X or Z. And there, I feel women are more ready to come forward.
Delphine