[Gendergap] NYTimes: "Teaching men to be emotionally honest"

2016-04-06 Thread Pine W
In the context of thinking about training male Wikipedians (particularly male administrators) in interpersonal, teamwork and leadership skills, I thought that this was an interesting read: http://www.nytimes.com/2016/04/10/education/edlife/teaching-men-to-be-emotionally-honest.html Pine

Re: [Gendergap] Call for Participation: Study on Women in Wikipedia

2016-04-06 Thread Amanda Menking
Hi All, As a part of my IEG, I had hoped to organize better the current resources. Alas, I over-scoped. :) However, I’m happy to share what I know/have learned and talk about how researchers interested in the “gender gap” might combine resources, tools, etc. Perhaps this is something to bring

Re: [Gendergap] Call for Participation: Study on Women in Wikipedia

2016-04-06 Thread Danielle J McDonald
Hi Lane, Thanks for checking in. Yes, Amanda has done some excellent work on this issue. She has been very helpful, as she's pioneering perhaps the largest project of this kind. I know there are probably a couple of other qualitative studies (perhaps some sparked by the Inspire Campaign), but

Re: [Gendergap] Call for Participation: Study on Women in Wikipedia

2016-04-06 Thread Rosie Stephenson-Goodknight
The Gender Gap Task Force has a crowd-sourced list of gender gap articles and research papers.[1] It would be helpful if we could get a librarian involved with updating and cataloging the list across all languages. [1]

Re: [Gendergap] Call for Participation: Study on Women in Wikipedia

2016-04-06 Thread Lane Rasberry
Hello, Amanda Menking at the University of Washington did a lot of interviews. There are some other people who have done interviews - perhaps 5 have posted projects like this. I am not sure where any archive of women's issues research is kept in Wikipedia. But have you talked with Amanda?