On 11/12/06, Oskar Sigvardsson <oskarsigvardsson(a)gmail.com> wrote:
If there is an overwhelming amount of males over
females it usually
signifies something bad (with a few exceptions, like say professional
wrestling). We have a host of brilliant female editors but apparently
not many of them are running for arbcom. This is a very, very bad
thing. We should encourage gender equality whenever we can, just
saying "We are wikipedia, here gender doesn't matter" is naive. There
is obviously a problem here and we should work to fix it. We don't
want to be a boys-club.
There don't seem to be many women participating in this discussion.
That, I would say, is the very very bad thing.
I'd say the last thing women need is a bunch of men deciding that
women are underrepresented by arb com and figuring out what to do
about it.
Anthony