[Gendergap] Making women feel like they are of equal value

emijrp emijrp at gmail.com
Tue Mar 15 21:37:10 UTC 2011


I see both:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Men%27s_national_sports_teams_of_Australia

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Women%27s_national_sports_teams_of_Australia

2011/3/15 Laura Hale <laura at fanhistory.com>

> I was looking at Wikipedia and one of the articles I watch got moved into a
> subcategory: Women's national team for Australia.  I checked the main
> category, and none of the men's teams were in a subcategory by gender.
> These sorts of little things suggest bias towards men, and imply that
> women's content isn't as important.
>
> Could some one create a bot or help put together a proposal in sports to
> address this imbalance, that suggests that women's national teams are a
> subset of national teams and that only men's teams are real national teams?
>
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