Hi Claudia. There are good numbers for LGBT in real world populations, and
the people doing the studies are all to aware of the problems with their
numbers - there are journals dedicated to research in this discipline. i
havent seen similar quality academic studies about LGBT within the
wikimedia
On Mon, 2 Jul 2012 09:47:58 +0100, Tom Morris wrote
> I'm not sure I agree that LGBT is another gender gap.
my impression is that there certainly are gender gaps in LGBTIQA* communities -
if ever non-heterosexual
people are happy to be lumped together just because of not identifying
non-hetero
On Jul 6, 2012 10:56 AM, "Gillian White" wrote:
> ...
> I think we should ignore sexual
> orientation on THIS one as it is irrelevant
> for addressing the the lack of female
> participation in Wikmedia projects.
I agree, mostly, but. . my understanding is that the surveys (ignoring the
faults in
P.S. As someone who used to be part of a "*Chix" organization and got
tired of explaining why we called ourselves "chicks", I'm all in favor
of naming things "*Women" instead. :)
WikiLadies Who WikiLunch? (Sorry ...)
Daniel Case
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On Thu, Jul 5, 2012 at 11:18 AM, Karen Sue Rolph wrote:
> Dear colleagues,
>
> I hope someone with survey design experience will be at this event and
> collect data on how many mothers manage to attend this event. We need to
> know whether women have adult or young children, and whether they are
Good question. I wonder if this sort of survey has been done more generally for
conferences? I would imagine all the factors mentioned here would apply to
conference attendance generally, not specific to Wikimania. Which might speak
to how effective we could reasonably expect conferences to be i
Dear colleagues,
I hope someone with survey design experience will be at this event and collect
data on how many mothers manage to attend this event. We need to know whether
women have adult or young children, and whether they are single parents, their
ethnicity, and professional training. T
