[WikiEN-l] Systemic bias wrt gender
Stan Shebs
stanshebs at earthlink.net
Wed Nov 22 01:04:34 UTC 2006
Sarah wrote:
> Seriously, it's kind of disturbing to see that women should be editing
> [[Blowdryer]] while the men get to grips with [[Arab-Israeli
> conflict]].
>
Anyway, COI policy now strongly recommends that only baldies (which may
be of either gender) edit [[Blowdryer]], right?
:-)
But to be serious again, it's not necessarily the *users* of a tool who
are the most interested in it - a better contributor is likely to be the
ultra-nerd whose library includes all the books ever published on small
personal appliances, and a nearly-complete collection of historically
significant blowdryers.
There are plenty of women on this list; perhaps they could opine on
whether there is significant systemic bias genderwise?
Stan
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