[Osmf-talk] Reaching out and diversity (Was: Re: AGM and board elections)

[Oleksiy Muzalyev]

Hello Emilie,

Still Josef Reagle in his study /"Free culture and gender gap"/ [1]
identifies a lack of female role models as a major cause of gender gap:
"...identifies hindrances to participation including *a* *lack of*
mentors and *role models*, discriminating language usage, a
male–dominated competitive world view, and a lack of women–centered
perspectives...". He is not writing just about a sexism.

The WMF in its /"Gender gap strategy 2013"/ [2] also mentions:
/"...propel women to the forefront of leadership/...".

I would like also to remark, in general, that women are not a minority.
In most industrial countries women are a growing majority [3].

[1] http://journals.uic.edu/ojs/index.php/fm/article/view/4291/3381
[2] http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Gender_gap_strategy_2013
[3] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_sex_ratio

Avec mes meilleures salutations,
Oleksiy

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