[Gendergap] Progress!!!

2011-10-24 Thread Marc Riddell
Hi, everyone. I wanted to share this with you in case some of you haven't seen it. http://www.usatoday.com/news/world/story/2011-10-22/India-women-names/508696 28/1?csp=mostpopular You can dream of a moment for years, and still somehow miss it when it comes. You've got to reach through the

Re: [Gendergap] Am I crazy?

2011-10-24 Thread Fred Bauder
I've never particularly felt the boys club atmosphere on Wikipedia that apparently deters some women. However, I am very angry right now. I tried to add [[date rape]] as a see also link to the very incomplete article [[college dating]]. The relevance seemed obvious to me. It was removed by

Re: [Gendergap] Am I crazy?

2011-10-24 Thread Lady of Shalott
Well, it's not rectified yet. The one source I've given thus far is not enough apparently. I have to add more. The see also was not merely questioned before, it was removed (with one edit summary being seriously, wtf?) LoS On 10/24/11, Daniel and Elizabeth Case danc...@frontiernet.net wrote:

Re: [Gendergap] Am I crazy?

2011-10-24 Thread BĂ©ria Lima
*It would not have to be a gender related issue for this to occur.* Fred is right in that point. I'm not a gender editor (my articles almost never have problems with gender issues), however, the topic is one where you can find the most biased people on earth: Religion. And I would say you

Re: [Gendergap] Am I crazy?

2011-10-24 Thread Nathan
Not convinced by the AfD. Snow kept after less than 24 hours, based on one substantial vote and a bunch of what he said votes that didn't address whether college dating is so distinct a phenomena that it needs to be treated separately from [[dating]]. A search string of +college +dating is

Re: [Gendergap] Am I crazy?

2011-10-24 Thread Sue Gardner
Yeah, personally I think the subject is notable. There has been tons of academic research and popular history written about the history of dating, college dating, the invention of the 'teenager,' etc. Even just within the United States. I think I did a radio series on this once -- IIRC, Beth

Re: [Gendergap] Gendergap Digest, Vol 9, Issue 64

2011-10-24 Thread Migdia Chinea
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