On Wed, Mar 16, 2011 at 15:56, Daniel and Elizabeth Case <[email protected]> wrote: > Forking this list as a way to make it more effective in its stated purpose > is bound to be self-defeating for the simple reason (beyond the inability to > effectively authenticate the gender of participants) that Wikipedia itself > is not gender-segregated. Any single-gender project to close the gap is, > IMO, bound to fail. > > Informally, I also fear that a women-only list might be even less successful > in empowering women on this list to find ways to overcome gender inequity on > it. One woman who doesn't post much here, but with whom I correspond, told > me the idea, particularly as Laura articulates it, just generally gives her > a bad vibe, to the point that she'd avoid any women-only list because women > who set them up basically have, in her experience, the ultimate goal of > being Queen Bee and lording (ladying?) it over all the other women > participating in ways they would never dare to do otherwise if they knew men > would become aware of it. > I've just written, and deleted, several responses to this. :)
It's true that women can be other women's worst critics. I have no answers for it. But I think when discussing this kind of issue we should try to AGF. I know of only one women-only list set up on WP, and the woman who did it had the very best of intentions. Sarah _______________________________________________ Gendergap mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/gendergap
