gender balance

[Kelley]

Dumbledad:
> Although it's hard to guess sex from pseudonym (no matter what I 
do, I cannot stop thinking of GlumPlum as a woman, though he isn't) 
>>>

Haha, wow.  Interesting; never did I have *any* sense of GulPlum as 
anything other than male... <g>

> it looks as if only 1 of the 28 elves listed is a man. That's less 
than 4%. Has that always been the proportion? >>>

No.  Like David says below, it's always fluctuated.  And, I should 
add, there *are* other men on the List Admin Team, they're just not 
welcome elves or pending elves.  We have Paul -- our Technowizard, 
Steve Vander Ark -- the Lexicon master and HPEF Board member, Mike 
Gray -- Aberforth's Goat, creator of The Goat Pad, which has morphed 
into QuickQuotes at TLC, and Jim Ferer -- former welcome elf.

And of course, there've been lots of wonderful men who've stepped 
down from list administration -- Neil (Flying Ford Anglia), John 
(Queerasjohn), Jim Flanagan (Moderator Emeritus), Simon (aka Dr. 
Branford), Luke (caliburncy), Andrew MacIan (Drieux) and David 
himself.

Plus, there've been other men that have been invited over time to 
join the team but have had to decline for various reasons.

> Is it representative of the membership? >>>

Don't really know, but like Abigail said, the great majority of list 
members are female.  I am curious about the data on this actually 
(how many males, how many females in the group), but not enough to go 
through the membership list and count.  ;-D
 
David:
> During my membership of the admin team as one of the small male 
> minority I never felt that the gender ratio mattered. >>>

Yes, I've never noticed any significance from the gender ratio, 
either, fwiw.
 
> I confirm that (to the best of my knowledge!) Grey Wolf is indeed 
> the only male on the list published by Kelley. >>>

Lol.  Okay, I confess, I'm actually a guy, too.  ;-P
 
> Finally, I think male membership of the admin team is at a historic 
> low at the moment.  When I joined, there were four moderators, of 
> whom only one was a woman.  When the moderators disbanded there 
were two men out of eight.  No doubt it will fluctuate in the future. 
>>>

Yep, as it fluctuated a bit between the former and latter, too.  But 
yeah, we are heavy on the estrogen right now... <g>


--Kelley