Stan Shebs wrote
The
hazard of asserting that women editors have something similarly
distinctive to bring to WP, by virtue of gender alone, is that one is
playing right into the stereotype of "women's topics" or "female
viewpoints", and risks creating a sort of "pink collar" ghetto in WP
that new female editors would be subtly (or not-so-subtly) steered towards.
The argument is broken.
Sure, creating the editorial equivalent of traditional newspapers' Women's Pages
is not only a generation out of date and patronising, it is nothing anyone with WP
experience would want anything to do with.
But WP is a voluntary organisation, first and foremost. Discouraging women in any way is
shooting ourselves in the feet, big time. Not just because slant in topic coverage will be
harder to correct. But because women are (on average) better quality volunteers. Why else
did we elect Angela and Anthere to the Board?
Charles
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