Hi everyone,
I am running currently a project in Switzerland dedicated to the gender gap. More information here (in French) https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Projet:Suisse/Biographies_des_femmes_en_Suisse and here on the website of the University of Geneva: http://www.unige.ch/rectorat/egalite/evenement/actualites/wikipedia/
I had an interesting encounter on Twitter with an established Wikipedian who suggested that women bios and bios in general were not well received by the wikipedian community because of admissibility issues.
This person also suggested that addressing gender gap could not be fulfilled by just having women write bios, because this is addressing only the gender bias. He said writing bios did not help women address more complicated and technical subjects.
He wrote that limiting the gender gap to the gender bias is not enough.
Does anyone have a clue on this subject and/or informations, discussion feeds and papers of academic research?
I had the idea that gender gap had two aspects: contributor gap and subject gap. To me gender bias had more to do with the way sexist stereotypes introduces differences in the way an article is written: for e.g. women bios tend to be more focused on the marital life and less on the work achieved, less linked to other articles. Therefore the two concepts cannot so easily be separated and have a two way causality.
So I would really appreciate an exchange on this subject (sorry if it has been addressed before), and of the ways we can address the problem in effect, and not just in theory (especially when running an editing workshop or edit-a-thon). Do we have somme sort of best practices somewhere? A group devoted to this?
Kind regards,
Nattes à chat