[WikiEN-l] Systemic bias wrt gender

[Jim Schuler]

Agreed...very good points.

On 11/25/06, charles.r.matthews at ntlworld.com <
charles.r.matthews at ntlworld.com> wrote:
>
> Stan Shebs wrote
>
> >The
> > hazard of asserting that women editors have something similarly
> > distinctive to bring to WP, by virtue of gender alone, is that one is
> > playing right into the stereotype of "women's topics" or "female
> > viewpoints", and risks creating a sort of "pink collar" ghetto in WP
> > that new female editors would be subtly (or not-so-subtly) steered
> towards.
>
> The argument is broken.
>
> Sure, creating the editorial equivalent of traditional newspapers' Women's
> Pages is not only a generation out of date and patronising, it is nothing
> anyone with WP experience would want anything to do with.
>
> But WP is a voluntary organisation, first and foremost. Discouraging women
> in any way is shooting ourselves in the feet, big time. Not just because
> slant in topic coverage will be harder to correct. But because women are (on
> average) better quality volunteers. Why else did we elect Angela and Anthere
> to the Board?
>
> Charles
>
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