On Mon, Jun 4, 2012 at 1:30 PM, Sarah Stierch sarah.stierch@gmail.comwrote:
I do believe that sexual harassment directed towards women does effect the gender gap - perhaps not so much, but, after my Women and Wikimedia Survey almost half of women did state that they were assaulted or harassed on Wikipedia in some context and almost half said no, that's more than women said a sexualized environment was impacting them. For me, this is more deterimental then the accidental stumbling upon of porn on Wikipedia. There have been moments in my Wikipedia-existence that I have wanted to leave the community due to harassment, and I know I'm surely not the only woman on this list who feels that way. I always like reading about how people are handling situations like this on the internet, as I can only learn from them.
So, whether it's deterring current or future editors, I do think it's more relevant than pornography at this time.
But, perhaps I'm wrong!
-Sarah
In the context of Wikipedia editing, what does it mean to have been "assaulted"?
~Nathan