I was looking at Wikipedia and one of the articles I watch got moved into a subcategory: Women's national team for Australia. I checked the main category, and none of the men's teams were in a subcategory by gender. These sorts of little things suggest bias towards men, and imply that women's content isn't as important.
Could some one create a bot or help put together a proposal in sports to address this imbalance, that suggests that women's national teams are a subset of national teams and that only men's teams are real national teams?
I see both:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Men%27s_national_sports_teams_of_Austr...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Women%27s_national_sports_teams_of_Aus...
2011/3/15 Laura Hale laura@fanhistory.com
I was looking at Wikipedia and one of the articles I watch got moved into a subcategory: Women's national team for Australia. I checked the main category, and none of the men's teams were in a subcategory by gender. These sorts of little things suggest bias towards men, and imply that women's content isn't as important.
Could some one create a bot or help put together a proposal in sports to address this imbalance, that suggests that women's national teams are a subset of national teams and that only men's teams are real national teams?
-- twitter: purplepopple blog: ozziesport.com
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Kaldari
On 3/15/11 2:37 PM, emijrp wrote:
I see both:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Men%27s_national_sports_teams_of_Austr...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Women%27s_national_sports_teams_of_Aus...
2011/3/15 Laura Hale <laura@fanhistory.com mailto:laura@fanhistory.com>
I was looking at Wikipedia and one of the articles I watch got moved into a subcategory: Women's national team for Australia. I checked the main category, and none of the men's teams were in a subcategory by gender. These sorts of little things suggest bias towards men, and imply that women's content isn't as important. Could some one create a bot or help put together a proposal in sports to address this imbalance, that suggests that women's national teams are a subset of national teams and that only men's teams are real national teams? -- twitter: purplepopple blog: ozziesport.com <http://ozziesport.com> _______________________________________________ Gendergap mailing list Gendergap@lists.wikimedia.org <mailto:Gendergap@lists.wikimedia.org> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/gendergap
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I was looking at Wikipedia and one of the articles I watch got moved into a subcategory: Women's national team for Australia. I checked the main category, and none of the men's teams were in a subcategory by gender. These sorts of little things suggest bias towards men, and imply that women's content isn't as important.
Could some one create a bot or help put together a proposal in sports to address this imbalance, that suggests that women's national teams are a subset of national teams and that only men's teams are real national teams?
-- twitter: purplepopple blog: ozziesport.com
Looks like you were BOLD and did this. Good! Unless something is predictably controversial, which I don't think this is, that is probably the best way to proceed. You did leave a note...
Fred