[Foundation-l] Fundraising is for men

[Thomas Dalton]

On 29 November 2011 21:51, emijrp <emijrp at gmail.com> wrote:
> Dear all;
>
> We have heard many times that most Wikipedians are male, but have you heard
> about gender and fundraising? Some data from a 2010 study[1] and a 2011
> German study[2] (question 20th of 22). People have said that Wikipedia is a
> sexist place which excludes women to edit. Looks like women neither are
> interested on editing nor funding free knowledge.
>
> Is WMF working to increase female donors just like female editors?

I think the first step would be to try and figure out if women are
visiting the site and not donating or just not visiting at all.

You would also want to make sure there really is a significant
imbalance and that it's not just that men are more likely to fill out
the survey form.