On 8/31/07, Florence Devouard Anthere9@yahoo.com wrote: [snip]
I will not comment on the "few women in the upper echelons of Wikipedia", but I can comment on the "very numerous women in the upper echelons of the Foundation". http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Image:Wikimania_2007_dungodung_79.jpg this is a picture taken at Wikimania, the first wikichix meeting.
From top, going to the right Sue Gardner, head of executive Henna, dev, from netherlands Phoebe, usa, leader of Wikimania 2006 and co-organiser of 2007 Frieda, italian, chair of Wikimedia Italy, board member of WMF Delphine, french, chapter coordinator of WMF Oooops, memory hole... Brianna, australia, wikicommons (keen I think) Another memory hole, shame on me. She is german and very involved in various Wikimedia Deutschland activity. Kat, usa, board member Aphaia, japanese, translation committee head Anthere, chair of WMF Sandy, communication manager
The second "memory hole" (in the black t-shirt) seems to be Nina Gerlach (I *think* but I'm not sure if this is http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benutzer:Nina). I can't make out who is in the blue top, to Delphine's left.
On misogyny and sexism as engrained practices - it's still quite a sorry state of the world - I wonder if the Wikichix group has developed any resources for the wider community to ponder, and to take action?
Cormac