[Gendergap] What are the Poles, Slovenes, Russians and Portuguese doing right in regards to the gender gap?

[Laura Hale]

https://toolserver.org/~robin/?tool=incubatorprefs&db=ruwikiversity is a
tool that allows you to check the participation rates of males/females on
various wikiprojects based on users who explicitly state this information
in their profile. I've been trying to get this data for specific country
pages on the http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WikiWomenCamp/FAQ/Perspectivesnational
perspectives.  I've done a sample of about 89 different projects,
getting the total number of males/females and the percentage of
males/females on a given project.

Across these projects, the mean, median and mode was:

  Females Users %  Mean 638.4269663 13.05741573  Median 9 10.88  Mode 0 0

What was surprising was some projects have 20%+ female participation for
relatively large projects including Russian and Portuguese Wikipedia.
 Slovene Wikiquote only has 90 women on it, but they make up 75% of the
identified by gender population.  Data below.

   Language Project Gender Users %  Slovenian Wikisource Female 90 77.59
Arabic Wikimedia Female 1 50  Polish Wikiquote Female 132 42.31  Slovenian
Wikipedia Female 928 35.79  Russian Wikiquote Female 127 31.91  Portuguese
Wikibooks Female 223 30.42  Portuguese Wiktionary Female 114 29.61
Portuguese Wikiquote Female 58 29  Russian Wikiversity Female 180 26.63
Portuguese Wikipedia Female 12,264 25.9  Russian Wikibooks Female 195 25.36
Dutch Wikibooks Female 54 24.43  Persian Wikibooks Female 43 23.5  Russian
Wikipedia Female 33,275 23.34  French Wikisource Female 100 23.15  French
Wikiquote Female 34 22.52  Dutch Wiktionary Female 52 22.51  Portuguese
Wikisource Female 36 21.56  Portuguese Wikiversity Female 106 21.54  Russian
Wikinews Female 60 21.05  Polish Wikimedia Female 27 20.3  Polish Wiktionary
Female 54 20.3  Polish Wikibooks Female 63 20  Arabic Wikiquote Female 29
19.46  Arabic Wikibooks Female 30 19.35  Slovenian Wikiquote Female 2 18.18
Polish Wikisource Female 23 17.69  Russian Wikisource Female 60 16.76
Arabic Wikisource Female 22 16.67  Dutch Wikimedia Female 8 16.33  French
Wikibooks Female 49 16.12  Persian Wikiquote Female 17 15.89  French
Wikiversity Female 87 15.88  Norwegian (Nynorsk) Wikipedia Female 57 15.83
Vietnamese Wiktionary Female 37 14.92  Egyptian Arabic Wikipedia Female 79
14.77  Arabic Wikipedia Female 3,580 14.73  French Wikipedia Female 4,319
14.65  Vietnamese Wikisource Female 12 13.95  Dutch Wikiquote Female 5 13.51
Korean Wikisource Female 9 12.68  French Wikinews Female 26 12.32  Arabic
Wikiversity Female 9 12.16  Polish Wikinews Female 13 11.71  Portuguese
Wikinews Female 16 10.88  Vietnamese Wikiquotes Female 8 10.67  Vietnamese
Wikibooks Female 14 10.61  Arabic Wikinews Female 12 10.43  Russian
Wikimedia Female 5 10.42  Catalan Wiktionary Female 3 10  Persian Wikisource
Female 14 9.72  Korean Wiktionary Female 7 9.21  Catalan Wikibooks Female 3
9.09  Persian Wikinews Female 7 8.75  Persian Wiktionary Female 16 8.56
Asturian Wikipedia Female 10 8.55  Korean Wikiquote Female 2 8  Catalan
Wikisource Female 1 7.14  Corsican Wikimedia Female 1 7.14  Portuguese
Wikimedia Female 1 6.67  Dutch Wikinews Female 1 4.76  Ripuarian Wikipedia
Female 3 4.29  Kurdish Wiktionary Female 1 3.57  Dutch Wikisource Female 1
3.45  Furlan Wikipedia Female 1 2  Banjar Wikipedia Female 1 1.75  Corsican
Wikipedia Female 1 1.69  Buginese Wikipedia Female 1 1.67  Kurdish Wikipedia
Female 1 0.81  Catalan Wikinews Female 0 0  Catalan Wikiquote Female 0 0
Fijian Wikpedia Female 0 0  Fijian Wiktionary Female 0 0  Korean Wikibooks
Female 0 0  Korean Wikinews Female 0 0  Kanuri Wikipedia Female 0 0  Kanuri
Wikiquote Female 0 0  Kashmiri Wikipedia Female 0 0  Kashmiri Wikibooks
Female 0 0  Kashmiri Wikiquote Female 0 0  Kashmiri Wiktionary Female 0 0
Kurdish Wikibooks Female 0 0  Kurdish Wikiquote Female 0 0  Slovenian
Wikibooks Female 0 0  Asturian Wikibooks Female 0 0  Asturian Wikiquote
Female 0 0  Buryat (Russia) Wikipedia Female 0 0  Corsican Wikibooks Female
0 0  Corsican Wikiquote Female 0 0


What is going on here?  What makes the Portuguese, Russians, Poles and
Slovenes so good at attracting a larger percentage of female contributors
than their English speaking counterparts?


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