The recent discussion on this (which never really came to a clear consensus):

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_(policy)/Archive_101#Actresses_categorization

- Andrew

On 27 April 2013 01:49, Ryan Kaldari <rkaldari@wikimedia.org> wrote:
> If people are concerned about sexism in Wikipedia categories they should be
> drawing attention to edits like this:
> https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Elizabeth_Gillies&curid=19682193&diff=536982107&oldid=536980531
>
> While the rest of the world is moving away from gender-specific job names
> (like policeman and actress), Wikipedia is moving in the opposite direction.
> That seems like a much worse problem than categorizing women as women.
>
> Ryan Kaldari
>
>
> On 4/25/13 11:34 PM, Shlomi Fish wrote:
>>
>> Hi all,
>>
>> On Thu, 25 Apr 2013 13:56:39 -0400
>> Sumana Harihareswara <sumanah@wikimedia.org> wrote:
>>
>>> Wikimedia community member Liz Henry blogs here:
>>> http://bookmaniac.org/journalists-dont-understand-wikipedia-sometimes/
>>> and does a little bit of digging into edit histories.
>>>
>>> "Just from these three samples, it does not seem that there is any
>>> particular movement among a group of Wikipedia editors to remove women
>>> from the “novelists” category and put them in a special women category
>>> instead. I would say that the general leaning, rather, is to stop people
>>> who would like to label women writers as women writers *in addition* to
>>> labeling them as writers, claiming there is no need for Category:
>>> American women writers at all and that it is evidence of bias to
>>> identify them by gender. ... The sexist thing we
>>> should be up in arms about isn’t labelling women as women! It’s the
>>> efforts to delete entire categories (like Haitian women writers, for
>>> example) because someone has decided that that meta-information is
>>> unnecessary “ghettoization”..."
>>
>> Seems like good write-up and I tend to agree. It's too bad there was so
>> much
>> misunderstanding in the media about it.
>>
>> Regards,
>>
>>         Shlomi Fish
>>
>
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