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

Fred Bauder fredbaud at fairpoint.net
Tue Mar 15 22:49:29 UTC 2011


> 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?
>
> --
> twitter: purplepopple
> blog: ozziesport.com

Looks like you were BOLD and did this. Good! Unless something is
predictably controversial, which I don't think this is, that is probably
the best way to proceed. You did leave a note...

Fred





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