Good question. I wonder if this sort of survey has been done more generally for
conferences? I would imagine all the factors mentioned here would apply to conference
attendance generally, not specific to Wikimania. Which might speak to how effective we
could reasonably expect conferences to be in addressing the gender gap.
-Pete
On Jul 5, 2012, at 8:18 AM, Karen Sue Rolph wrote:
Dear colleagues,
I hope someone with survey design experience will be at this event and collect data on
how many mothers manage to attend this event. We need to know whether women have adult or
young children, and whether they are single parents, their ethnicity, and professional
training. This will provide truly useful data, if done scientifically. I can help write
an instrument if called upon to do so. Let us not overlook single parent fathers and
alternative parents. My hypothesis is that there will be extremely few of any of these.
Dads (in some ethnicities) get a social 'bonus' for being parents (increased
social status), unlike mothers, so its important to distinguish clearly who is supporting
and raising children, not just having parented and kids exist in the world kinds of data.
KSRolph
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