On 11/21/06, niht-hræfn nihthraefn@gmail.com wrote:
On Nov 21, 2006, at 19:08, Fred Bauder wrote:
On Nov 21, 2006, at 4:28 PM, niht-hræfn wrote:
The recent thread on the low numbers of women applying for ArbCom and subsequent discussion about systemic bias and under-representation of women has led me to wonder about the nature of gender-related systemic bias on the English Wikipedia.
I suspect the cause is simply that women have something else to do with their time that they enjoy more. However, I also suspect enough women will edit, that "women's subjects" will eventually be adequately handled.
Fred
Indeed, I'm not terribly worried about article coverage, but merely wondering if the difference is affecting other areas, such as policy.
--Keitei
Do you have specific examples which come to mind, or is this a generic concern?
I have seen such things happen in the past in smaller groups, but larger sets of people tend to have less such problems. WP policy has seemed pretty neutral to me, but I'm open to the possibility that I'm not seeing something that's there.