[WikiEN-l] Systemic bias wrt gender

[Stan Shebs]

Kat Walsh wrote:
> The coverage issues that the thread started with are more interesting
> to me. Why are topics that are traditionally of female interest,
> whatever they are, less well-covered? My
> completely-unsupported-by-evidence anecdotal conjecture is that the
> intersection of people interested in those topics with the people who
> spend a lot of time online and think it would be enjoyable to edit an
> online encyclopedia is somewhat less than that with, say, those who
> are interested in computing and military history.
>   
Hmm, it occurs to me that if the dateless geeks learn enough about 
blowdryers and such to write articles, they have excellent conversation 
starters for the women they've always been tongue-tied with before. A 
little risky though - sometime after "Hi, I notice you're wearing Prada 
- DYK that Prada..." one would have to get in "No, I'm not gay, just a 
Wikipedian".

:-)

Stan