Wondering if there is any particular relevance to the gender gap issue
in the removal of one board member and protests against the new one? Or
just a general "editor trust" issue, which makes many editors dis-trust
any "close the gap" programs/initiatives by WMF?? (Or at least gives
them an
While I believe that the issues raised in the changes in the Board of
Trustees are important and worthy of attention for many reasons, it does
not appear to me that there are issues specific to (or particularly
relevant to) the gender gap, except in a very, very peripheral way.
Risker/Anne
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Two male trustees are leaving as their terms have expired. One male trustee
has been controversially ousted.
Two trustees have been appointed, one female, the other male. There is a
petition to reject the new male trustee which may or may not succeed, and
if it succeeds who can predict the gender
Though I doubt it has anything to do with why he was removed, I'm not sure
we've had a trustee more oriented towards figuring out how to address
gendered harrassment than James, and at the same time, the culture Arnnon
promoted while at Google is the same culture that hurts the progress of
women
