[Gendergap] [PRESS] Stuff.co.nz | Kiwi women are 'slobs' - Wikipedia

2011-11-26 Thread Sue Gardner
Hey folks,

http://www.stuff.co.nz/life-style/beauty/6041397/Kiwi-women-are-slobs-Wikipedia

According to Wikipedia women in New Zealand are unfeminine, wear
masculine clothing and spend ''little time on makeup and personal
grooming''.

Somebody might want to take a look at this -- the article is here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Culture_of_New_Zealand.

This is the relevant paragraph:

Lack of femininity: Women in New Zealand are supposedly unfeminine,
for example wearing masculine clothing and spending little time on
makeup and other forms of personal grooming. This can also be seen in
a positive light; Kiwi women are portrayed as not being held back by
ideas about being 'ladylike' and are therefore willing to take on
'masculine' tasks such as car maintenance and playing rugby. Former
Prime Minister Helen Clark is often seen as an embodiment of this
stereotype, for good and bad: critics point at her lack of children
and her choice on one occasion to meet the Queen while wearing
trousers; supporters like her passion for mountain climbing and
ability to hold her own in parliamentary debates.[24]

If nobody else has time to look at it I'll try to do it sometime in
the next few days :-)

Thanks,
Sue


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Re: [Gendergap] [PRESS] Stuff.co.nz | Kiwi women are 'slobs' - Wikipedia

2011-11-26 Thread Sarah Stierch
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stereotype#Stereotypes

There we go! Plenty of links to go around.

Here is my new favorite: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nurse_stereotypes

The worst part is it's probably one of the better stereotype articles in
regards to citations!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethnic_stereotype

This also has some content that needs to be looked at. I just removed a
statement from [[Western stereotypes of West and Central Asians]] that
stated: Central Asia especially the Former Soviet-bloc, is often seen as a
backwards region, where everyone lives on subsistence farming, and everyone
has strange customs.

Uncited, of course.

-Sarah

On Sat, Nov 26, 2011 at 11:55 AM, Sarah Stierch sarah.stie...@gmail.comwrote:

 I just cleaned out the entire section. The citations used (except the book
 in the men's section I haven't looked at) DON'T mention stereotype in
 anyway. It's obviously someone with original research just throwing it out
 there based on personal opinion.

 The section below also needs to be cleaned out.

 I did a brief browsing online for New Zealand stereotypes (Wikipedia is
 the first hit) and found very little of quality material for sourcing.

 I wonder how many other groups have stereotypes on their pages?

 -Sarah



 On Sat, Nov 26, 2011 at 11:42 AM, Sue Gardner sgard...@wikimedia.orgwrote:

 Hey folks,


 http://www.stuff.co.nz/life-style/beauty/6041397/Kiwi-women-are-slobs-Wikipedia

 According to Wikipedia women in New Zealand are unfeminine, wear
 masculine clothing and spend ''little time on makeup and personal
 grooming''.

 Somebody might want to take a look at this -- the article is here:
 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Culture_of_New_Zealand.

 This is the relevant paragraph:

 Lack of femininity: Women in New Zealand are supposedly unfeminine,
 for example wearing masculine clothing and spending little time on
 makeup and other forms of personal grooming. This can also be seen in
 a positive light; Kiwi women are portrayed as not being held back by
 ideas about being 'ladylike' and are therefore willing to take on
 'masculine' tasks such as car maintenance and playing rugby. Former
 Prime Minister Helen Clark is often seen as an embodiment of this
 stereotype, for good and bad: critics point at her lack of children
 and her choice on one occasion to meet the Queen while wearing
 trousers; supporters like her passion for mountain climbing and
 ability to hold her own in parliamentary debates.[24]

 If nobody else has time to look at it I'll try to do it sometime in
 the next few days :-)

 Thanks,
 Sue


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