Low participation of women is not only a Wikipedia issue. As we know, the same pattern is found in the social and political participation areas of our "advanced" societies, but there are exceptions. I want to share some details on women in national parliaments and compare it to women presence in wikis:
Country - Year - Women (%) ------------------------------- Cuba - 2013 - 48.9% Ecuador - 2013 - 41.6% Colombia - 2014 - 19.9% Saudi Arabia - 2013 - 19.9% United States - 2014 - 19.4% Uncyclopedia - 2008 - 9.6% Wikipedia - 2011 - 8.5% Source: http://www.ipu.org/wmn-e/classif.htm Did you excepted this numbers? Just my two cents. 2015-06-02 2:09 GMT+02:00 Jason Radford <[email protected]>: > Hi, > > Since participating in the Inspire campaign, I got interested in the > question of exactly how many women would be needed on Wikipedia to close > the gender gap. I ran some simulations and came up with some fairly > radical numbers. For example, according to my calculations, there are so > few current and new female editors that, even if every current and new > active, female editor stayed active for ten years, we wouldn't close the > gap. > > I've posted the results > <https://civilsociology.wordpress.com/2015/05/31/closing-the-gender-gap-on-wikipedia-results-from-some-simulations/> > to my blog. It's password protected so I can share the results and get > feedback without making it pubic. You can access them by using the > password "wikipedia". I'm hoping some of you with experience researching > gender representation on Wikipedia would be able to catch any errors. > > Thanks! > Jason > -- > Jason Radford > Doctoral Student, Sociology, University of Chicago > Visiting Researcher, Lazer Lab, Northeastern University > *Connect*: LinkedIn <http://www.linkedin.com/in/jsradford>, Twitter > <http://www.twitter.com/jsradford>, University of Chicago > <http://home.uchicago.edu/%7Ejsradford/> > *Play Games for Science at Volunteer Science > <http://www.volunteerscience.com>* > > _______________________________________________ > Wiki-research-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wiki-research-l > >
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