[Osmf-talk] AGM and board elections

[Oleksiy Muzalyev]

The sex ratio for the entire world population is 101 males to 100 
females http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_sex_ratio

  In the worldwide Wikipedia Editor Survey 2011 of all the Wikipedias, 
91% of respondents were male 
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedians

In the recent study /Free Culture and the Gender Gap/ 
http://journals.uic.edu/ojs/index.php/fm/article/view/4291/3381 Joseph 
Reagle, an Assistant Professor of Communication Studies at Northeastern 
University, argues that "...the ideas of freedom and openness can be 
used to dismiss concerns and rationalize the gender gap as a matter of 
preference and choice." He claims that women make a choice, but it is 
not based at all on whether they find the project interesting or have a 
contribution to make.

The Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees which oversees Wikipedia 
consists of five women and five men 
https://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Board_of_Trustees . They also try 
to introduce some initiatives to improve the situation.

It is an untapped resource of half the population. Women are certainly 
as smart as men, and, actually, many of them are not even weaker than 
men, as I know only too well personally (sigh...) from amateur running.

brgds
Oleksiy (Alex-7)

On 19.09.2014 10:11, Simon Poole wrote:
>
> Am 19.09.2014 00:43, schrieb Steve Doerr:
>> What is the proportion of women to men among mappers? My guess is that
>> it is much lower than two to five.
> Simple answer: we don't know. We do not ask for a gender indication
> during the sign up process.
>
> What we do know is that female participation in public events aka
> conferences and the like, is low. But if that mirrors our contributor
> make up at all is not clear.
>
> Simon
>

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