{"action":"created","issue":{"url":"https://api.github.com/repos/programminghistorian/jekyll/issues/152","labels_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/programminghistorian/jekyll/issues/152/labels{/name}","comments_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/programminghistorian/jekyll/issues/152/comments","events_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/programminghistorian/jekyll/issues/152/events","html_url":"https://github.com/programminghistorian/jekyll/issues/152","id":115736151,"number":152,"title":"How can we make the PH more friendly for women to contribute?","user":{"login":"acrymble","id":646647,"avatar_url":"https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/646647?v=3","gravatar_id":"","url":"https://api.github.com/users/acrymble","html_url":"https://github.com/acrymble","followers_url":"https://api.github.com/users/acrymble/followers","following_url":"https://api.github.com/users/acrymble/following{/other_user}","gists_url":"https://api.github.com/users/acrymble/gists{/gist_id}","starred_url":"https://api.github.com/users/acrymble/starred{/owner}{/repo}","subscriptions_url":"https://api.github.com/users/acrymble/subscriptions","organizations_url":"https://api.github.com/users/acrymble/orgs","repos_url":"https://api.github.com/users/acrymble/repos","events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/acrymble/events{/privacy}","received_events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/acrymble/received_events","type":"User","site_admin":false},"labels":[{"url":"https://api.github.com/repos/programminghistorian/jekyll/labels/question","name":"question","color":"cc317c"}],"state":"open","locked":false,"assignee":null,"milestone":null,"comments":43,"created_at":"2015-11-08T14:15:33Z","updated_at":"2015-11-11T23:34:55Z","closed_at":null,"body":"This is an open conversation for the whole world. Please feel free to contribute no matter who you are.\r\n\r\nThe Programming Historian has currently published contributions from 28 authors and has contributions from another 5 in active peer review. Of those 33 authors, only 9 are female (27%).\r\n\r\nWe do not typically solicit tutorials (though sometimes we do), so I believe this reflects who has self-selected to participate in the project. We have not rejected large numbers of contributions from women. We have in the past attempted to address this problem by tweeting (June 2014) about the gender disparity and encouraging women to come forward as contributors. In that campaign we had six women agree in principle to write tutorials, and none of them ever submitted anything (they were reminded a number of times but eventually that gets awkward and naggy).\r\n\r\nMy question:\r\n\r\n*Is there anything we can reasonably do to address the gender disparity of contributing authors?* Is there anything about the way the project is structured or the instructions are written (http://programminghistorian.org/contribute) that prevents more equal contribution rates? Please note any changes and suggestions must allow us to maintain the high quality of tutorial that our readers expect.\r\n\r\nI am very keen to hear ideas on this matter."},"comment":{"url":"https://api.github.com/repos/programminghistorian/jekyll/issues/comments/155944134","html_url":"https://github.com/programminghistorian/jekyll/issues/152#issuecomment-155944134","issue_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/programminghistorian/jekyll/issues/152","id":155944134,"user":{"login":"erinbush","id":2366727,"avatar_url":"https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/2366727?v=3","gravatar_id":"","url":"https://api.github.com/users/erinbush","html_url":"https://github.com/erinbush","followers_url":"https://api.github.com/users/erinbush/followers","following_url":"https://api.github.com/users/erinbush/following{/other_user}","gists_url":"https://api.github.com/users/erinbush/gists{/gist_id}","starred_url":"https://api.github.com/users/erinbush/starred{/owner}{/repo}","subscriptions_url":"https://api.github.com/users/erinbush/subscriptions","organizations_url":"https://api.github.com/users/erinbush/orgs","repos_url":"https://api.github.com/users/erinbush/repos","events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/erinbush/events{/privacy}","received_events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/erinbush/received_events","type":"User","site_admin":false},"created_at":"2015-11-11T23:34:55Z","updated_at":"2015-11-11T23:34:55Z","body":"@acrymble thank you for posing the question and I really appreciate the discussion thus far. \r\n\r\nI'll second (third? fourth?) the importance of active mentoring, and I'm fine with the idea of having non-editors do the mentoring. Github is daunting to me for all the reasons @miriamposner mentioned, but I'd be less apprehensive about using it for open peer review having had solid pre-tutorial discussions. I would consider myself a 'nervous contributor' not because I'm a woman, but because I'm a junior scholar and don't self-identify as a \"programmer.\"  If Github is the platform of choice, like it or not, it's a programmer's community and daunting to those of us who consider ourselves \"outside\" of it. \r\n\r\nLike others in this thread, I am happy to help in any way that is useful."}}