It's not denying attention or funds. It's focusing attention and funds on a badly needed area for 3 months out of the year, and the rest of the projects get the full 9 months. Inviting people to focus their proposals on the gender gap (which, btw, doesn't need scare quotes, as I assure you it's real), has the potential to make a far bigger impact than the past 4-5 years of talking about it have. This sounds suspiciously like white people whining about why there's no "white history month" when the shortest month of the year is allocated to black history month. Just some food for thought.
On Fri, Jan 9, 2015 at 11:09 AM, Bjoern Hoehrmann derhoermi@gmx.net wrote:
- Sydney Poore wrote:
It appears to me that you are entirely missing the actual nature of the problem and the reason for having a campaign targeted at the gender gap.
The *problem* is that there have been a suboptimal number of grant
requests
for funds to address the gender gap even though it a listed priority of
the
WMF.
Denying attention and funds to unrelated projects is not an appropriate way to encourage people interested in "gender gap" to request funds. -- Björn Höhrmann · mailto:bjoern@hoehrmann.de · http://bjoern.hoehrmann.de D-10243 Berlin · PGP Pub. KeyID: 0xA4357E78 · http://www.bjoernsworld.de Available for hire in Berlin (early 2015) · http://www.websitedev.de/
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