thank you, Risker/Anne, how interesting! ___a. Grants Advisory Committee http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grant_Advisory_Committee/Candidates
I would like to suggest we more or less immediately start a little group who advise female socialised people on how to fill in the application so it "works", and that our work be particularly open for non-native speakers of English for whom it may be difficult to overcome the cultural barriers implicit in English-language applications (hm, yes, I mean it the way it may sound) ___b. include their peer-reviewed scholarly works as references in our articles agree, saves a lot of time for everyone :-) given that we agree to trust this currency as is (says an open science advocacy activist) cheers Claudia On Tue, 5 Jun 2012 09:53:07 -0400, Risker wrote > A couple of things come to my mind with respect to this thread. The first > is that there is a lot of work that can be done "behind the scenes" to > encourage the voice of women within the WMF community. I recently > advocated for a woman to be included in the Funds Dissemination Committee > Advisory Group, and FloNight (Sydney Poore) answered the call there. Now > there are calls for members for the Grants Advisory Committee - an area > where I think women editors can have a big impact, helping to identify and > support funding requests that will help our overlapping communities to > support the development of knowledge that highlights the achievements of > women scientists, sportswomen, authors, designers, architects....I'd love > to see one or more women on that committee. > > I've not done a lot of work on content lately, but completely > coincidentally I was asked some questions about the work of a scientist > over on my talk page. Some judicious research demonstrated that she is a > woman who is highly respected in her field. It occurs to me that one place > where we can continue to illustrate the contributions of women to many > fields would be to include their peer-reviewed scholarly works as > references in our articles. I am not saying that this should be done in a > way that would be unbalanced in the articles, but I think sometimes it is > easy to stop looking for expertise after a couple of decent references have > been found. Diving deeper is more likely to find these "experts who are > also women". > > Risker/Anne thanks & cheers, Claudia koltzenb...@w4w.net _______________________________________________ Gendergap mailing list Gendergap@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/gendergap
