[Gendergap] Question for men: Looking for a rationale for not forking off men

[Laura Hale]

I'm looking for a rationale as to why men are needed on a list dedicated to
help increase female participation.  Most of the successes I'm seeing in
this area comes from women.  Look at Wikipedia4Women.  It is run by women.
Maybe I just can't see all the wonderful things men are doing.  It would be
great to get a man's perspective on how men are specifically helping to
address this gender gap:

1.  What women's focused content have you, as a man, improved on Wikipedia
and other projects since joining this mailing list?

2.  What offline events specifically have you, as a man, created and run
specifically run that were marketed at women to help specifically increase
the participation of women on Wikipedia?

3.  What online events specifically have you, as a man, created and run
specifically run that were marketed at women to help specifically increase
the participation of women on Wikipedia?

4.  As a man, how much time do you spend thinking about the content of your
posts and how people, who specifically identify as women, will view the
content they post?  Do you worry about your posts being viewed as using
gendered language, and insulting to women?

5.  What help have you provided to women on this list, when the women have
expressed concerns?  (Note: Responding to an e-mail does not count.)  How
many good article situations that people have mentioned have you stepped in
to help with?  How many articles, categories, policy pages have you, as a
man, gone to edit because of requests for help on the list?

6.  What have you, as a man, done to help make women, specifically because
the contributor is female, become administrators on all WMF projects since
joining the list?

7.  How many times have you, as a man, contacted other men offlist because
of the other man's onlist behaviour being problematic and discriminatory
against women, working counter to the goal of helping increase women's
participation on Wikipedia?

8.  As a man, how many contacts have you provided to women on the list to
help them accomplish of increasing women's participation on Wikipedia?  As a
man, how much assistance have you provided with web programming?  As a man,
how much financial assistance you have provided towards women run projects
to increase women's participation on Wikipedia?  As a man, how much legal
assistance have you provided for women trying to run these projects?

I can't wait to hear about all the good work that men on the list have been
doing to help increase the participation rates of women!


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