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Oskar Sigvardsson stated for the record:
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.
Well, I think it goes without saying that we need to establish an acceptable quota of females on the ArbComm. Then we need a procedure to follow if insufficient numbers of females run for the Committee, to impress enough to meet the quota.
Then we need to ensure that a proper percentage of articles are being written by women, and then that a proper percentage of those articles are deleted. Quotas must be met.
Of course to prevent fraud, we must verify that all editors truthfully state their sexes (and genders, if they have them). A DNA sample submission upon account creation is probably adequate.
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