Is Wikipedia Sexist?

[NobleSavage]

"...surveys suggest that less than 15 percent of its hundreds of thousands of contributors are women."

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/01/31/business/media/31link.html

So the internet's largest repository of knowledge is written by guys.

Should Wikipedia do something about it?

Should we shame women into writing for wikipedia?

Why doesn't NOW get on this?

 

[barbos]

Yes.
Also this Forum is sexist too, cause majority of contributors here are guys as well.

 

[Axulus]

It would only be sexist if the typical Wikipedia male is biased in a sexist manner and that sexism carries over to the articles. Just because they are male doesn't make them automatically sexist.

 

[Draconis]

I thought wikipedia secretly installed a forcefield in all keyboards, which activates and prevents typing when it detects a female trying to enter an article.

To get around this some women put on deep voices and wear fake beards.

 

[fast]

It would only be sexist if the typical Wikipedia male is biased in a sexist manner and that sexism carries over to the articles. Just because they are male doesn't make them automatically sexist.

Correct. Of course, such logic wouldn't hold up if this were about racism, as every bit of twisted logic regarding that would overwhelm our senses.

 

[repoman]

For dry articles about freight trains gender is irrelevant.