[Gendergap] Gender Gap: Recapping some basics about what we're doing

[Dominic]

On 2/16/11 8:38 PM, Oliver Keyes wrote:
> Reading some of the links (I'd only seen the NYT article and a few 
> other pages - thanks for providing all of it) I do see your point, but 
> it does seem like trying to resolve it internally would have been a 
> better first step (unless there /was/ some attempt to do so that went 
> completely over my head. I have a habit of missing things like that 
> and then putting my foot in it).

I think the publicity has been part of resolving the problem, and an 
important part at that. It's what got the discussion going internally, 
and it is also what has raised awareness among those outside the 
community who we want to bring into the fold. And since part of what we 
are doing here is trying to recruit a larger female editor base, I 
suspect that any community-driven discussion would have eventually 
concluded that we needed to reach out to the public by engaging the 
media about our problem.

Dominic
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