On 2/2/2012 3:03 AM, Caroline Becker wrote:
Don't be depress Sarah if female participation remains low. Even if
Wikipedia was a perfect place without any bias, it would still be a
project from the "real world" were lot of forces prevent women from
editing : lower confidence in themselves, less free time, lower access
to education.
We can't change the world, juste make our small environnement a little
less unjust.
Caroline
Particularly making it more acceptable to raise the issues of
harassment, double standards and systematic bias in various dispute
situations in terms of sex.
So far I've been lucky that in the most negative situations others did
raise it and call it out, if not on my sex, at least on political or
admin vs. editor basis. When I brought up the sex bias issue I was
ignored or ridiculed.
Of course, it helps if women (acknowledged being so or not) spend more
time commenting on ANI or Wikiquette or other places where civility and
sometimes even sex bias issues raised. I've been on latter lately here
and there; not on former in quite a while.
CM
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