RE: Women in Science: Fact on Women's Participation on STEM
From October 22 to October 29 (see SteemSTEM Distilled 7), steemstem has curated 73 different authors who have written a total of 117 different articles. However, I have trouble identifying women Steemit users there. But clearly, the men still dominate SteemStem. I expect an increase in the participation of Steemit women users in SteemStem. Hopefully SteemStem can give priority curation to them.
We have a female curator in steemSTEM and I'm a female management member. I'm sure that there are several women steemSTEM votes on too, at least I've seen many in the past.
Rewarding them extra is dumb, that's not equality. The true equality here is that they're treated exactly like the men. Their content is judged, not their gender.
The reason for men "dominating" steemSTEM is probably tied to the fact that men in general make up a bigger percentage of steemit users. It's just statistics.
My mistake here (I admit) is to write about "Women in SteemStem". As @justtryme90 mentioned, "You do not have a fucking clue what you are talking about".
Previously, I have thrown this discourse to the forum on channel steemstem. I did not find an answer. So, it looks like they came out of the "nest" to criticize it. I'm impressed.
From some of the criticisms I received, I concluded: "Everyone is free to contribute to steemstem with good qualifications. Male and female". The sub I admit are out of context. Looks ambiguous.
FYI for other readers regarding 'did not find an answer'
It does not look like a directional answer. Which I understand.
Your question: I'm looking for how many female writers in steemSTEM. Just that!
Our answer: We don't know, gender isn't important and everybody is welcome.
I think that's pretty clear, no?
All right, I relent. Nothing else to say.
We did not WANT to discuss that because it is not relevant to how the project functions. There is no bias to our selection of people's posts because there is no way to know someone's gender unless they give that information. That said, a lot of people have told me who they are, in confidence, and I will not disclose information to YOU that people may not want to be public as steemit is somewhat of an anonymous forum.
Their disclosure does not effect in any way how the project functions to select good content. Man, woman, neither, alien, dog, I do not have any preferences so long as they are creating well sourced, cited, interesting posts.