[Osmf-talk] Gender in OSM/OSMF

Kate Chapman kate at maploser.com
Tue Nov 28 21:59:44 UTC 2017


Hi All,

I just wanted to say if women wanted to discuss this further and don't feel
comfortable posting on this mailing list I'd very much be interested in
talking to you.

Please feel free to contact me directly.

Thanks,

-Kate

On Mon, Nov 27, 2017 at 12:01 PM, Rebecca Firth <rebecca.firth at hotosm.org>
wrote:

> Hi,
>
> Heather, thanks very much for reopening this topic for discussion. Myself
> and Amelia (copied) are very interested in becoming part of this
> discussion, which is also a pertinent topic at HOT. We are keen to promote
> gender inclusion across HOT and I'm sure can learn a lot from the ways this
> is/could be done across different parts of OSM. We don't have have clear
> stats at the moment to understand fully the role gender plays in HOT
> community participation, but we are doing an upcoming survey to investigate
> this further. Participants will be non identifiable, and we obviously won't
> achieve 100% coverage, but hopefully will get an idea to start with.
>
> Perhaps Celine and Miriam from the GeoChicas (geochicas.org) might also
> share some of the outputs from their recent research.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Rebecca
>
>
> On Mon, Nov 27, 2017 at 8:59 AM, Oleksiy Muzalyev <
> oleksiy.muzalyev at bluewin.ch> wrote:
>
>> On 27.11.17 14:28, john whelan wrote:
>>
>>> [...] Having people declare their gender means leaving them open to
>>> "trolls" and many feel safer not doing so [...]
>>>
>> As an aside, I was surprised to learn that in accordance with the WHO,
>> World Health Organization, statistics the percentage of violence against
>> women is about the same all over the world [1]. It does not depend much on
>> a region, income, etc. One in three women experience a violence significant
>> enough to contact a hospital. The WHO gets its statistics from medical
>> institutions.
>>
>> Probably, this 1 in 3 pattern is an intrinsic characteristic of the Homo
>> sapiens at the current stage of the evolution. Or it may be connected with
>> the substance abuse [2], which is also present all over the world in one or
>> another form.
>>
>> [1] http://www.who.int/reproductivehealth/publications/violence/
>> VAW_Prevelance.jpeg
>>
>> [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Substance_abuse
>>
>> brgds
>>
>> O.
>>
>>
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