Grants:IdeaLab/Encourage female users
Encourage female users
As a recently retired female History professor, I am aware that women are still in the minority in the profession. However, women now outnumber men as students. They use Wikipedia all the time. Some kind of eye-catching banner might encourage them. "Have you learned something worth sharing?"
created on13:58, 6 March 2015 (UTC)
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Encourage users to share their knowledge. As a woman I really dislike gender specific encouragement. It gives the sense that we are second class. yet we are the majority enrolled in colleges and universities
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Encourage student readers to contribute; if they do it will automatically increase the number of women who submit.
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