thank you, Risker/Anne, how interesting!
___a. Grants Advisory Committee http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grant_Advisory_Committee/Candidates
I would like to suggest we more or less immediately start a little group who advise female socialised people on how to fill in the application so it "works", and that our work be particularly open for non-native speakers of English for whom it may be difficult to overcome the cultural barriers implicit in English-language applications (hm, yes, I mean it the way it may sound)
___b. include their peer-reviewed scholarly works as references in our articles
agree, saves a lot of time for everyone :-) given that we agree to trust this currency as is (says an open science advocacy activist)
cheers Claudia
On Tue, 5 Jun 2012 09:53:07 -0400, Risker wrote
A couple of things come to my mind with respect to this thread. The first is that there is a lot of work that can be done "behind the scenes" to encourage the voice of women within the WMF community. I recently advocated for a woman to be included in the Funds Dissemination Committee Advisory Group, and FloNight (Sydney Poore) answered the call there. Now there are calls for members for the Grants Advisory Committee - an area where I think women editors can have a big impact, helping to identify and support funding requests that will help our overlapping communities to support the development of knowledge that highlights the achievements of women scientists, sportswomen, authors, designers, architects....I'd love to see one or more women on that committee.
I've not done a lot of work on content lately, but completely coincidentally I was asked some questions about the work of a scientist over on my talk page. Some judicious research demonstrated that she is a woman who is highly respected in her field. It occurs to me that one place where we can continue to illustrate the contributions of women to many fields would be to include their peer-reviewed scholarly works as references in our articles. I am not saying that this should be done in a way that would be unbalanced in the articles, but I think sometimes it is easy to stop looking for expertise after a couple of decent references have been found. Diving deeper is more likely to find these "experts who are also women".
Risker/Anne
thanks & cheers, Claudia koltzenburg@w4w.net