Dear Susan,
Thank you for your very appropriate words.I identify with them.
Patricia
--- On Fri, 2/18/11, Sue Gardner <sgardner(a)wikimedia.org> wrote:
From: Sue Gardner <sgardner(a)wikimedia.org>
Subject: Re: [Gendergap] Women4Wikipedia
To: "Increasing female participation in Wikimedia projects"
<gendergap(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
Cc: "Collective Action" <collective_action(a)hotmail.com>
Date: Friday, February 18, 2011, 11:04 AM
Hi Rosie!
On 18 February 2011 10:38, Collective Action
<collective_action(a)hotmail.com> wrote:
Having asked the original question on this thread I
thought I might chime in
with my thoughts to the responses. When I posted it I imagined I'd get
responses from women rather than men so it was interesting that the initial
responses came from men and then a discussion ensued about the
merits/disbenefits of the idea of Wikipedia dominated by women as it is
presently dominated (statistically) by men.
Yeah. Personally I appreciate that men are here, and caring about this
issue. I do think though that sometimes it would be more helpful if
some of the men here listened a little more and spoke a little less.
Women are likelier to be more 'expert' on the gender gap issue and its
origins than men are, so a man might usefully aim to learn here when
experiences are being shared, rather than teach.
There have I think been a couple of examples here of a woman saying
something about her experience, followed by a man seeming to
refute/rebut/deny what she said, or tell her she should feel
differently about it. That's a normal thing to do --it happens all the
time-- but it's not very helpful. If someone is sharing her
experience, there's really nothing to debate: it's her experience.
I am currently hosting weekly Twitter chats at
http://wthastag.com/Women4wikipedia starting 9am UTC/GMT Monday or 8pm
Australian Time (Sydney). Readings & transcripts are at
http://women4wikipedia.net
Thank you for starting those chats, and thank you for the site as well
(
http://women4wikipedia.net/). I am really thrilled to see people
starting their own initiatives to help solve this problem, and I
appreciate what you're doing :-)
Thanks,
Sue
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