On Wed, Nov 30, 2011 at 4:37 AM, Nicole Willson <artisticaltru...@gmail.com> wrote: > Given my background in wikis and fundraising for women's non-profits (YWCA > and the National Organization for Women among others), I'd just like to > point out a few things: > > 1. When I visited the first link, I saw that half the respondents are > married. I know from the donations I've handled and the donating habits of > other married couples (including my parents), that often a check or credit > card will be in the name of the husband, but the donation often comes from > both people in the couple or it could just be the wife using the husbands > account. I didn't see a methodology section, but does anyone know how > couples were handled in gathering this data? Were both of their genders > looked at in this report?
My experience concurs with this. When I was treasurer for Wikimedia France, we received lots of donations (checks mostly at the time, a common way to donate in France) in the name of a man. However, the accompanying card/letter was in at least 50% of cases that of a woman. So yes, I believe that women ar the driving force behind many donations, but just don't appear to be. In Germany, studies show that more women donate to charitable organisations than men do. However, only 19% of WIkimedia Deutschland's donors are women (with the bias expressed above), so yes, we're looking into targeting women donors more accurately. Best, Delphine Treasurer Wikimedia Deutschland _______________________________________________ Gendergap mailing list Gendergap@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/gendergap
