Thought this was interesting.
How to ge more women to join the debate http://kristof.blogs.nytimes.com/2015/01/06/how-to-get-more-women-to-join-th...
"Women were clearly underrepresented in my data. They made only a quarter
of comments, even though their
comments got more recommendations from
other readers on average. Even when they did speak up, they
tended to cluster
in stereotypically “female” areas: they were most common on articles about parenting, caring
for the old, fashion and dining. (Women got more
recommendations than men on most of the sports blogs, but
they still
made, for example, only 5 percent of comments on the soccer blog.)"
"It seems unlikely that these effects are confined to The New York Times; studies of online commenting find broad signs of inequality. (While women are well-represented on some websites, like the image-sharing site Pinterest,
these sites do not tend to focus on expressing and defending opinions. Online forums that do often
have mostly male commenters: examples
include Wikipedia edit pages, the social news site Reddit, and the
question-answering sites Quora and Stack Overflow.) I also spoke to Katherine Coffman, an economist whose results echoed mine: she found that women were less willing than men to contribute their ideas in stereotypically male areas.
Marie
Yes, very interesting. I liked this section too:
"Telling women that their comments received more recommendations might also encourage them to comment more; previous studies have found that women are less likely than men to persist in commenting when their comments do not receive positive responses."
This is something we try to do during our editathons; show our participants how much their articles are read and appreciated. But we could do even better there, I believe.
Thanks for sharing!
Best wishes,
Lennart Guldbrandsson
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From: eiryel@hotmail.com To: gendergap@lists.wikimedia.org Date: Wed, 7 Jan 2015 01:29:25 +0000 Subject: [Gendergap] Study of 1 million NY Times comments
Thought this was interesting.
How to ge more women to join the debate http://kristof.blogs.nytimes.com/2015/01/06/how-to-get-more-women-to-join-th...
"Women were clearly underrepresented in my data. They made only a quarter
of comments, even though their
comments got more recommendations from
other readers on average. Even when they did speak up, they
tended to cluster
in stereotypically “female” areas: they were most common on articles about parenting, caring
for the old, fashion and dining. (Women got more
recommendations than men on most of the sports blogs, but
they still
made, for example, only 5 percent of comments on the soccer blog.)"
"It seems unlikely that these effects are confined to The New York Times; studies of online commenting find broad signs of inequality. (While women are well-represented on some websites, like the image-sharing site Pinterest,
these sites do not tend to focus on expressing and defending opinions. Online forums that do often
have mostly male commenters: examples
include Wikipedia edit pages, the social news site Reddit, and the
question-answering sites Quora and Stack Overflow.) I also spoke to Katherine Coffman, an economist whose results echoed mine: she found that women were less willing than men to contribute their ideas in stereotypically male areas.
Marie
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