Re: [Gendergap] WikiWomen's Luncheon at Wikimania
It was a great pleasure to meet so many of the women whose names I recognized from this mailing list at the WikiWomen Luncheon. There were about 120 of us in the room, and probably another 20-30 other women who were busy elsewhere at the same time: probably the largest gathering of WikiWomen ever to this point. I don't think there was a single session I attended all conference where I was the only woman, which really did mean a lot. What is interesting is that, despite this wonderful concentration of women Wikimedians at this conference, we still only made up about 10-12% of the total attendance. But the strength, experience, and knowledge that we had in the banquet room was amazing and incredibly positive. To get to know each other a bit, we all took turns introducing ourselves and explaining our link to the Wikimedia projects, and then each of us added three words that we felt were significant to us. It was really fascinating to see the diversity in that! Risker/Anne ___ Gendergap mailing list Gendergap@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/gendergap
Re: [Gendergap] WikiWomen's Luncheon at Wikimania
Sort of kind of maybe looking forward to it. Courtney On Wed, Jul 4, 2012 at 11:32 PM, Valerie Aurora vale...@adainitiative.orgwrote: On Wed, Jul 4, 2012 at 6:28 AM, Sarah Stierch sarah.stie...@gmail.com wrote: Hi everyone, Are you a woman attending Wikimania? Join us for the WikiWomen's Luncheon on Saturday, July 14 in the Grand Ballroom. This is a great opportunity to meet women from around the world who contribute to and advocate for Wikimedia projects. Sign up to participate here: http://wikimania2012.wikimedia.org/wiki/WikiWomen%27s_Luncheon I'm really looking forward to this lunch! Can't wait to see you all! Thanks, Sarah, for publicizing it, -VAL P.S. As someone who used to be part of a *Chix organization and got tired of explaining why we called ourselves chicks, I'm all in favor of naming things *Women instead. :) -- Increasing the participation of women in open technology and culture http://adainitiative.org ___ Gendergap mailing list Gendergap@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/gendergap ___ Gendergap mailing list Gendergap@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/gendergap
Re: [Gendergap] WikiWomen's Luncheon at Wikimania
Dear colleagues, I hope someone with survey design experience will be at this event and collect data on how many mothers manage to attend this event. We need to know whether women have adult or young children, and whether they are single parents, their ethnicity, and professional training. This will provide truly useful data, if done scientifically. I can help write an instrument if called upon to do so. Let us not overlook single parent fathers and alternative parents. My hypothesis is that there will be extremely few of any of these. Dads (in some ethnicities) get a social 'bonus' for being parents (increased social status), unlike mothers, so its important to distinguish clearly who is supporting and raising children, not just having parented and kids exist in the world kinds of data. KSRolph ___ Gendergap mailing list Gendergap@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/gendergap
Re: [Gendergap] WikiWomen's Luncheon at Wikimania
Good question. I wonder if this sort of survey has been done more generally for conferences? I would imagine all the factors mentioned here would apply to conference attendance generally, not specific to Wikimania. Which might speak to how effective we could reasonably expect conferences to be in addressing the gender gap. -Pete On Jul 5, 2012, at 8:18 AM, Karen Sue Rolph wrote: Dear colleagues, I hope someone with survey design experience will be at this event and collect data on how many mothers manage to attend this event. We need to know whether women have adult or young children, and whether they are single parents, their ethnicity, and professional training. This will provide truly useful data, if done scientifically. I can help write an instrument if called upon to do so. Let us not overlook single parent fathers and alternative parents. My hypothesis is that there will be extremely few of any of these. Dads (in some ethnicities) get a social 'bonus' for being parents (increased social status), unlike mothers, so its important to distinguish clearly who is supporting and raising children, not just having parented and kids exist in the world kinds of data. KSRolph ___ Gendergap mailing list Gendergap@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/gendergap Pete Forsyth petefors...@gmail.com 503-383-9454 mobile ___ Gendergap mailing list Gendergap@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/gendergap
[Gendergap] WikiWomen's Luncheon at Wikimania
Hi everyone, Are you a woman attending Wikimania? Join us for the WikiWomen's Luncheon on Saturday, July 14 in the Grand Ballroom. This is a great opportunity to meet women from around the world who contribute to and advocate for Wikimedia projects. Sign up to participate here: http://wikimania2012.wikimedia.org/wiki/WikiWomen%27s_Luncheon -Sarah -- *Sarah Stierch* */Wikimedia Foundation Community Fellow/* Mind the gap! Support Wikipedia women's outreach: donate today https://donate.wikimedia.org/ ___ Gendergap mailing list Gendergap@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/gendergap
Re: [Gendergap] WikiWomen's Luncheon at Wikimania
On Wed, Jul 4, 2012 at 6:28 AM, Sarah Stierch sarah.stie...@gmail.com wrote: Hi everyone, Are you a woman attending Wikimania? Join us for the WikiWomen's Luncheon on Saturday, July 14 in the Grand Ballroom. This is a great opportunity to meet women from around the world who contribute to and advocate for Wikimedia projects. Sign up to participate here: http://wikimania2012.wikimedia.org/wiki/WikiWomen%27s_Luncheon I'm really looking forward to this lunch! Can't wait to see you all! Thanks, Sarah, for publicizing it, -VAL P.S. As someone who used to be part of a *Chix organization and got tired of explaining why we called ourselves chicks, I'm all in favor of naming things *Women instead. :) -- Increasing the participation of women in open technology and culture http://adainitiative.org ___ Gendergap mailing list Gendergap@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/gendergap
