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Wikipedia's dearth of women contributors: An interview with Sarah Stierch

Everywhere. Most men don't know how to check their privilege, and most women can't be bothered to put up with it (assuming that is even an option). A lot of men deny their privilege and/or flat out refuse to change their behavior. As a guy, I can't put up with their dreck half the time.

Let's not be silly here. When a perceived class of people start crying about "Privilege", it's easy to figure out where they're coming from. Look, ladies, I for one will listen to anyone with a semi-decent idea, gender doesn't enter into it. I most certainly do not attempt to discern the gender of the writer before reading anything. The fact is, I really don't even look at the name of the writer when I read - perhaps I should so I can give appreciation for the good works that they do.

I'm just a (male) reader of Wikipedia, not a contributor. Personally, it has never occurred to me until now to wonder whether the writer of any particular article is a man or a woman. It probably won't bother me from now on either.

Male-versus-male competition is pretty much standard in mammalian species. Females make their importance felt with less overt aggression. In human societies where knowledge is valued, demonstrating (some) knowledge enhances a man's status. It's probably less harmful to society than men displaying their physical prowess.

Interestingly, it's been noted recently that in cooking and in fashion design, both traditionally "women's skills", some of the most influential voices are men's.

Men have just been culturally conditioned to ignore, pass by, like women are invisible or something rather than appreciating the diversity of perspectives. I do appreciate the outreach and believe that is an effort in the right direction. Rather like women making 77 cents to the male dollar and men think that is perfectly ok, since it is still so prevalent. Like heart studies where all of the participants are male and then (male) doctors don't know why women have completely different cardiac symptomology. One guy in three so far have completely denied their own privilege. One stating it is about status, meaning that men have to make a spectacle of themselves by being obnoxious. Completely obliviously noting that even in traditionally women dominated subject areas, men STILL must make an ass of themselves. The next completely unwilling to acknowledge his own privilege and unawareness, calling the whole thing 'silly'. His loss. One guy out of three get's it. Better odds than usual and one would hope that a civilized society would value ALL of it's members rather than just the ones who can beat, rape and kill.

Does any woman recognize nerd as a man?
In the first question she tells that woman don't have enough time. How is it possible.
They spend at least 5 hours a day on cellphone and gossip and that sort of things.
Most of Wikipedia editors are classified as nerds and not their favourite jocks. Bringing gender in this matter is really annoying.

It absolutely baffles me why, with no barrier of any kind so far as I tell, anyone would take it in his head that the dearth of women in any particular field, including the one in question, must be, has to be, unarguably is, due to some mysterious brand of sexism unheard of until this practical moment.
It appears to me that all anyone of whichever sex who wants to contribute to Wikipedia has to do is to do so. Given that self-evident fact, the answer why females are unrepresented can hardly be other than they don't choose to do so. It is also self-evident that this choice is made within the female head, and I'd suggest that root of this 'problem', if such it actually is, lays in that area.
It's been my experience, which I believe to be a common enough set, that a large part of the reason that women's inputs are ignored by their male collegues is simply the female penchant for believing that convincing herself should be sufficient for convincing all, which is seldom the case. Any person, male or female, with head well screwed on who offers a legitimate point of view is unlikely to be elbowed aside arbitrarily. Maybe in the good days of bra burning, but, for Pete's sake, that was half a century ago. Blaming men for every insufficency females carry about with themselves is a greater burden to themselves than anything men do, especially given the ubiquitous tendency the ordinary male has to heap assistance upon these selfsame females, simply because they are female, without regard to merit. Sadly, women see this natural protectiveness of men toward women as their birthright, again, simply because they are female.

The Teahouse page really doesn't explain how to get started as an editor. If that's your goal to attract new editors, particularly women, that page needs a new design to reflect that goal.

Have you asked the Women of SWE (Society of Women Engineers) to help out? Here are a bunch of Tech savey women that might have what you are looking for.

We must seek out where the words of wisdom lies and share it to others...it should be the purpose of wikipeadian's... it should not have anything to do with gender matter's .!

the dearth of women contributors can be a struggle without an opponent to oppose what women hate's to express..

if they don't like to contribute.. what can we do??

Call me stupid, but exactly which portion of "mail privilege" lets me type on a keyboard and contribute to Wikipedia and prevents a woman? I'm an IT consultant, a profession which doesn't see many women, why? I don't know. I do know this, my wife cannot seem to manage a remote control properly, but when I'm around her I don't even bother attempting math in any form, I just look at her and she spits out what I take for granted is the correct answer. My wife seems to have no interest in geeky gadgety things, why? Don't know, don't care, it isn't my purpose in life to tell her what to be interested in - That would a male domineering thing wouldn't it?

I meant "male" not mail. (by the way, my "female" wife would undoubtedly have spelled that word correctly).

People who are complaining about things like "male privilege" and "white privilege" aren't doing much more but blaming other people for their own darned shortcomings. Yes, I'm white and male. I'm also short, fat, hearing impaired, have a speech impediment and walk with a severe limp because of a hip problem I was born with. Women, and people of color, do me a favor, before you whine and complain to me about being put upon because of your gender and your skin color, take a look at the statistics for short people, overweight people, hearing impaired, speech impaired people, physically impaired people, oh and people who simply aren't pretty - then we'll get together over a beer and nuts and talk about your whining. In the mean time,I have better things to do than think about excuses for failure.