[Osmf-talk] 3→4% figure source? | Re: Commitment to open communication channels

Simon Poole simon at poole.ch
Wed Aug 19 08:04:43 UTC 2020


http://publik.tuwien.ac.at/files/PubDat_218905.pdf references three
papers as justification for a 2-5% number. More recent publications tend
to indicate slightly higher numbers.

Simon

Am 19.08.2020 um 09:14 schrieb Rory McCann:
> Where's your evidence/What's your source for this 3→4% figure?
>
> On 19/08/2020 00:56, Martin Koppenhoefer wrote:
>>
>>
>> sent from a phone
>>
>>> On 18. Aug 2020, at 18:21, Michael Reichert <osm-ml at michreichert.de>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>> Did you confuse this year with last year? There have been two women on
>>> the board until December. However, currently no woman is on the
>>> board of
>>> directors.
>>
>>
>> I am aware of this, my comment was meant for the whole of
>> OpenStreetMap-Foundation history, i.e. all women on all boards
>> through all the years as well as for the last years.
>> I’ve looked if up and it seems in total we have had 91 board member
>> terms of which 10 were served by women (11%) and since 2015 it were
>> 35 terms with 6 served by women (17%) compared to an estimated
>> participation of women in the project of 3-4%. It may sound cynical,
>> but these are the numbers I have found. For me there is no doubt that
>> more participation of female mappers, both in mapping and in tag
>> development, would be beneficial to the project, but not having them
>> adequately represented in the board is apparently not the root of the
>> problem.
>>
>> Cheers Martin
>>
>>
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