[Talk-us] Open survey on participation biases in OSM

Joel Holdsworth joel at airwebreathe.org.uk
Tue Sep 5 20:32:32 UTC 2017


> The ultimate goal for OSM should be a project which everyone feels
> welcome to be a part of, and which does not have a noticeable bias
> towards either gender or any given race. Also, please realize just
> because women are welcome to participate in OSM, does not necessarily
> mean that some women will *feel* they are welcome.
> 

But exactly how is the project unwelcoming? How could the "Edit" button 
be welcoming to men and not women?

I didn't even know the map had strip-clubs or childcare in it - and I've 
been contributing for 10-years, so this clearly isn't an explanation for 
the gender percentages we have.

A simpler explanation would be that women are simply interested in other 
past-times. And what's wrong with that?

Joel



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