Re: [Gendergap] Women only events ?

2017-06-01 Thread Pine W
Hi Natacha, Like you, find it a bit discouraging that there remain such large disparities in our diversity. WMF has been working on this issue for years, and while there have been some successful projects, my hunch is that the percentage of female contributors as a percentage of all contributors

Re: [Gendergap] Wiktionary *desperately* needs more gender-aware editors

2017-06-01 Thread Natacha Rault
Hi Jessy, Sorry to learn about this sad experience. I had the impression - on the French wiktionnary, things were easier (but I am not contributing myself). Kind regards, Nattes à chat > Le 26 avr. 2017 à 19:27, Jessy D. King a écrit : > > Hi, > I'm new to this list,

Re: [Gendergap] Women only events ?

2017-06-01 Thread Natacha Rault
Hi Pine, Thank you for your detailed answer. In fact what you mentionned in the second part of your mail, the fact that such events might exclude certain class of people and suggest gender favoritism is what fuelled remarks in the first place. This is what surprized me most, because this is

Re: [Gendergap] Film Dialogue from 2, 000 screenplays, Broken Down by Gender and Age

2017-06-01 Thread Natacha Rault
Great stuff there, showing that words and langage are important: they have an impact on the way unconscious bias is constructed. I'm tweeting it right away! Nattes à chat / Natacha > Le 20 mai 2017 à 00:24, Lindsey Anne Frankenfield > a écrit : > > interesting

Re: [Gendergap] "WikiTribune" and gender gap

2017-06-01 Thread Carol Moore dc
On 5/27/2017 3:24 AM, Peter Southwood wrote: If that means "one or two", I agree with you. If it means "half", I would prefer getting one that is completely professional :-) Cheers, Peter If WikiTribune is hiring 3 editors, 1 or 2 would be good. Your inference that it is hard to find even