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Women, Bloggers, and Wikipedia

Every year, a meme in the legal blogosphere surfaces: Where are all the women? Everyone gets very concerned for women, who apparently are being prevented from blogging. Who is preventing women from blogging? No one says. Well, it's "men," we are told. Yet who exactly are these men? It's certainly not this man. I read and link to female bloggers. Most blogs are shit, and I'll probably find one reason or another to hate someone's site. Hating a blog because a woman wrote it is unsophisticated discrimination. Yet the meme lives on, as the New York Times discusses the lack of women on Wikipedia: About a year ago, the Wikimedia Foundation, the organization that runs Wikipedia, collaborated on a study of Wikipedia?s contributor base and discovered that it was barely 13 percent women; the average age of a contributor was in the mid-20s, according to the study by a joint center of the United Nations University and Maastricht University...continue to full post

Full post as published by Crime & Federalism on February 08, 2011 (boomark / email).