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http://www.nytimes.com/roomfordebate/2011/02/02/where-are-the-women-in-wikipedia Wikipedia, the "free encyclopedia that anyone can edit," has more than 3.5 million articles in English covering nearly every subject under the sun. Every day, hundreds of thousands of people go there to add information or create new pages (the site offers straightforward instructions). Yet despite the site's openness, surveys suggest that less than 15 percent of Wikipedia's contributors are women. The Wikipedia Foundation has set a goal to raise the share of female contributors to 25 percent by 2015. What accounts for this imbalance? Is there something about Wikipedia's format and purpose that attracts more male contributors (other sites like Flickr and Yelp do not appear to have this gender gap)? Are there ways to alter this gap? Christine Morton christine@christinemorton.com 650-995-4550

On 2/3/11 1:26 PM, "Christine Morton" <christine@christinemorton.com> wrote: > > www.nytimes.com/roomfordebate/2011/02/02/where-are-the-women-in-wikipedia > > Wikipedia, the "free encyclopedia that anyone can edit," www.wikipedia.org > has more than 3.5 million articles in English covering nearly every subject > under the sun. Every day, hundreds of thousands of people go there to add > information or create new pages (the site offers straightforward instructions > <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:About#Contributing_to_Wikipedia> ). > Yet despite the site's openness, surveys suggest > <http://www.nytimes.com/2011/01/31/business/media/31link.html> that less than > 15 percent > <http://www.wikipediasurvey.org/docs/Wikipedia_Overview_15March2010-FINAL.pdf> > of Wikipedia's contributors are women. The Wikipedia Foundation has set a goal > to raise the share of female contributors to 25 percent by 2015. > > What accounts for this imbalance? Is there something about Wikipedia's format > and purpose that attracts more male contributors (other sites like Flickr and > Yelp do not appear to have this gender gap > <http://www.ignitesocialmedia.com/2010-social-network-analysis-report/> )? Are > there ways to alter this gap? > > > Christine Morton > christine@christinemorton.com > 650-995-4550 > Dear Christine, There are luminaries in our field and related fields (I am thinking of Peggy Orenstein, author of Schoolgirls) who explore why women¹s math and science (and therefore tech and digital affinities) seem to drop at the onset of menses and remain lower than those with both X and Y chromosomes. I can see three ways to remediate this ­ we need to trumpet ourselves to the sky and post our own *%$&#! Wikipedia articles rather than waiting for someone to roll out the red carpet for us; we need to accept rejection (and support one another a bit more generously), and we need to spend less time working the ³second shift² www.enotes.com/second-shift-salem/second-shift and more time doing math, science and tech-oriented projects. I waited until I was 49 years old to realize this. Thank you for your question. Adrienne Redd Adrienne Redd, Ph.D. | adjunct professor Sociology, Anthropology & Criminal Justice | Arcadia University | 215-778-3784 cell White Is NOT A Color: Unpacking Racial Identity, (in press) EME Press. Fallen Walls and Fallen Towers: The Fate of the Nation in a Global World, (2010) Nimble Books, LLC. Listen to recent radio interviews at www.fallenwallsfallentowers.com - Fallen Walls and Fallen Towers website Subscribe to the blog The Global and the Local: Society, Community and Communication http://adrienneredd.wordpress.com <http://adrienneredd.wordpress.com> . ³Follow² discussion, news, and content at http://twitter.com/Adrienne_Redd <http://twitter.com/Adrienne_Redd> http://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/dresser-after-dark-blog-talk/id391528255 To download the MP3 of the KYNT, KBBZ and other interviews, request an emailed ³invitation² to the digital PRESS desk at www.box.net. > > > _______________________________________________ > CITASA mailing list > CITASA@list.citasa.org > http://list.citasa.org/mailman/listinfo/citasa_list.citasa.org