[Gendergap] Awareness of gender gap at Olympics

2012-07-30 Thread Risker
While this does not directly relate to the Wikimedia gender gap issues, I thought many on this list would find the attached news article, which appeared in The National Post (a Canadian Toronto/national newspaper) , to be of interest. Perhaps we can draw some lessons from it, in particular the

Re: [Gendergap] Awareness of gender gap at Olympics

2012-07-30 Thread Laura Hale
On Tue, Jul 31, 2012 at 4:56 AM, Risker risker...@gmail.com wrote: While this does not directly relate to the Wikimedia gender gap issues, I thought many on this list would find the attached news article, which appeared in The National Post (a Canadian Toronto/national newspaper) , to be of

[Gendergap] Fwd: [Wikimedia-l] IRC office hours with the Wikimedia Fellows

2012-07-30 Thread Sarah Stierch
FYI - great place to also ask about fellowship opportunities - yes, you can be a fellow (or a ladyfellow)!! (and not live in the States!) Original Message Subject:[Wikimedia-l] IRC office hours with the Wikimedia Fellows Date: Mon, 30 Jul 2012 14:35:56 -0700 From:

Re: [Gendergap] Awareness of gender gap at Olympics

2012-07-30 Thread Ryan Kaldari
On 7/30/12 2:14 PM, Laura Hale wrote: Did you hear any stories about how Patrick Mills left the NBA early in order to spend more time training with the national team in order to try to get gold? No. Of course not. The men are not expected to win gold. They don't want to hold early training