On 11/12/06, Oskar Sigvardsson oskarsigvardsson@gmail.com wrote:
If there is an overwhelming amount of males over females it usually signifies something bad (with a few exceptions, like say professional wrestling). We have a host of brilliant female editors but apparently not many of them are running for arbcom. This is a very, very bad thing. We should encourage gender equality whenever we can, just saying "We are wikipedia, here gender doesn't matter" is naive. There is obviously a problem here and we should work to fix it. We don't want to be a boys-club.
There don't seem to be many women participating in this discussion. That, I would say, is the very very bad thing.
I'd say the last thing women need is a bunch of men deciding that women are underrepresented by arb com and figuring out what to do about it.
Anthony