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Preliminary research result on Wikipedia gender gap in India
http://editors.cis-india.org/a2k/blogs/preliminary-research-result-on-wikipedia-gender-gap-in-india
<b>Since June 2016, Ting-Yi Chang from the University of Toronto has worked with the CIS-A2K team to conduct action research on the Wikipedia gender gap in India. The research aims to improve the understanding of the gender gap (imbalance) issue in the Indian Wikipedia communities while examining local interventions.
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<p dir="ltr"><em>This post is an extraction from the Wikipedia Gender Gap Bridging Toolkit - South Asia Edition which will be published on Wiki (Commons and meta) in late May 2017. The toolkit is a derivative of the gender gap research initiative.</em></p>
<p dir="ltr"> Wikipedia has a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gender_bias_on_Wikipedia">wide gender gap</a> in participation and content coverage. The <a href="https://wikimediafoundation.org/w/index.php?title=File%3AEditor_Survey_Report_-_April_2011.pdf&page=1">editor survey in 2011</a> showed that among the active editors worldwide only 9% identified themselves as female. While research and initiatives have been proposed and conducted to “bridge the gender gap,” mass majority of these studies are done in the Western context (English/European language Wikipedias and communities). The movement dynamics and situation of other Wikipedian communities are not well explored or documented. Of the few studies that did focus on non-Western contexts, this action research is one of the few to look at the issue in India.</p>
<p dir="ltr">Due to the timeline of the research and the limitation of space in this post, we will only discuss the preliminary findings of the study, specifically for the following questions:</p>
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<p dir="ltr"><strong>Q1:</strong> What are existing female Wikipedians’ (regardless of one’s activeness in editing) experience in the Wikimedian communities?</p>
<p dir="ltr"><strong>Q2:</strong> What are new female Wikipedians’ (who participated in gender gap bridging events) attitude and preference toward these gender gap bridging activities?</p>
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<p dir="ltr">In Q1, we used<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_coding"> open coding</a> to find recurring themes in the qualitative data collected through 18 semi-structured interviews with 21 female Wikipedians, and label them to find certain patterns of answers. To answer question 2, discussion and infographics will be presented to summarize the 64 survey responses we have gathered.</p>
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<p dir="ltr"><strong>Q1: What are existing female Wikipedians’ experience in the Wikimedian communities?</strong></p>
<p dir="ltr">Western-based research and survey has shown that a plausible reason behind the gender gap on Wikipedia is the discriminatory and unwelcoming environment within the editor communities. Research was much needed to explore the reasons in the Indian context as we cannot simply apply the same results or rule out the possibility of the same situation. Among the 9 reasons that Sue Gardner, the former Executive Director of WMF, had pointed out in her <a href="https://suegardner.org/2011/02/19/nine-reasons-why-women-dont-edit-wikipedia-in-their-own-words/">2011 blog post</a>, we deem the “misogynist atmosphere” as the most problematic - it signals an unhealthy environment and structure for diversity and long term growth.</p>
<p dir="ltr">Thus, 18 private interviews were held to understand the positive and negative experience that existing female (Indian) Wikipedians have faced in the communities. In this question we are specifically looking at the interaction and interpersonal relationship between community members (editors), hence it does not include experiences like discouragement from speedy deletion or technical difficulty in editing.</p>
<p dir="ltr">In each of the two categories (positive and negative), we use three labels to cover the recurring themes mentioned. In “positive experience,” these are (a) emotional support and respect, (b) bonding and friendship, and (c) other support. In “negative experience,” the three labels are (a) neglected or belittled, (b) sexist comments, and (c) safety concern. </p>
<p dir="ltr"><img src="http://editors.cis-india.org/a2k/blogs/tableofexperience.png/image_large" alt="Table of female editor experience" class="image-inline image-inline" title="Table of female editor experience" /></p>
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<p dir="ltr">It is interesting to note that although in most (Western-based) research, the positive and negative experiences were in the online context, our interviewees (Indian female Wikipedians) had mostly pointed out experiences that were either offline or in non-specified context. Comments on the online interaction dynamics were fairly rare and neutral, while negative experiences mostly occurred in the offline settings.</p>
<p dir="ltr">This can indicate that the communities’ offline interaction dynamics leaves a much more significant impression (sadly, especially when it is negative) to female Wikipedians on their overall community experience. Additionally, it seems that compared to the Western/English context, Indian Wikipedian communities are more close-knit and active offline, that is, the editors are more likely to know each other personally. This dynamic is a great plus to create positive experience such as strong bonding and emotional support. However, it may also be more toxic when the experience is negative as compared to if the experience was online and anonymous. In other words, sexist comments, deliberate neglect, and safety concerns can have an aggravated effect when faced personally.</p>
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<p dir="ltr">In numbers, more positive experiences were mentioned than negative ones when a neutral question was asked (such as “How do you think about the community?” / ”what is your experience in the editor community so far?”). Most negative experience were only revealed when a negative-oriented question was asked (such as “Have you had any negative or uncomfortable experience so far?”). This may be interpreted that the interviewees’ overall experiences are positive with only occasional negative encounters. However, this interpretation can still be biased if we consider the possibility that:</p>
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<p dir="ltr">the selection of our interviewees was already biased since “existing” female Wikipedians can be those that have not experienced much negative experience (i.e. the female editors who were upset by more negative experiences and had already quit editing were not reachable when the interviews were conducted, or they might simply be uninterested in participating in the research).</p>
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<p dir="ltr"><strong>Q2: What are new female Wikipedians’ (who participated in gender gap bridging events) attitude and preference toward these gender gap bridging activities? </strong></p>
<p dir="ltr">As indicated in our last question, the offline interaction and activities seem to be very crucial in determining a female Wikipedian’s overall experience in the community. In other questions throughout the semi-structured interview, we had asked existing female Wikipedians - who had been active in gender gap bridging event conduct - to discuss what can make an event more welcoming to women. Below are some of the answers given:</p>
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<p dir="ltr">A women-only event (although some also criticized that this approach often made the gender gap a “women-only” discussion)</p>
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<p dir="ltr">Offline events where women can meet others face to face (although some had mention that they prefer to participate online - which makes them feel safer and more comfortable)</p>
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<p dir="ltr">The chance for participants to socialize and make friends</p>
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<p dir="ltr">Write about women-related topics (although some had argued that a gender gap bridging event should not promote the tokenizing logic that (only) women should (only) edit on women-related topics)</p>
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<p dir="ltr">As you may notice, there are divergence of ideas regarding the points A, C, and E. In order to cross-check all these ideas, a survey of 11 scale-rating questions was developed to understand the new female Wikipedians’ (who participated in a gender gap bridging event) attitude and preferences. Three clusters of questions were formed - general experience, cross-checking questions, and attitude.</p>
<p dir="ltr"><img src="http://editors.cis-india.org/a2k/blogs/surveyquestions.png/image_large" alt="Survey questions and cross-checking factors" class="image-left image-inline" title="Survey questions and cross-checking factors" /></p>
<p dir="ltr"><span id="docs-internal-guid-479f8e7a-2fda-b92a-f0fb-be9ceef5f207">Below is an infographics on the 64 responses we had collected: (You may click on the image at the top of this page (under the blog title) to zoom in)</span></p>
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<p dir="ltr">From the infographics above we can see that event participants’ overall experience are positive. However, it may still be far from perfect as there were 2 respondents who “fully disagreed” with the statement “I find the event environment safe, friendly, and welcoming.” There are still more than 40% of the respondents who thought editing is difficult (or somewhat difficult), which means improvement is needed in our event tutorship or a re-estimation participants’ skill levels is needed. Participants’ attitude towards the events was also mostly positive as indicated in the last two questions.</p>
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<p dir="ltr"><strong>Cross-checking (A): Do women prefer a women-only event?</strong></p>
<p dir="ltr">During the events, the presenters and resource persons usually encouraged male participation in the initiatives and stressed that the gender gap bridging efforts cannot be a further segregation between men and women editors. Hence, we do expect this to influence the answers given to the statement “I still prefer a women-only event.” Still, more than one-third of the participants indicated their preference in women-only events; we expect the actual rate to be even higher if the said factor was not present.</p>
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<p dir="ltr"><strong>Cross-checking (B): Is the presence of female tutor(s) important? (Does a tutor’s gender matter?)</strong></p>
<p dir="ltr">Question 5 and 6 show very interesting results. In the offline (in real life) event context, there seem to be more disagreement on the statement “I would prefer a woman to be my tutor.” These responses can be affected by the fact that majority of the tutors in Wikipedia events were still men, and if a participant had generally positive experience throughout the event, they might not be against the idea of having a male tutor again. Nonetheless, interestingly, the answer turned the other way around when the scenario changed to an “online” setting. More respondents then agreed that they would prefer a women as their tutor. This may be a sign that women are more alert and defensive when it comes to online interaction with people in the opposite sex.</p>
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<p dir="ltr"><strong>Cross-checking (C) : Do women prefer offline (in-real-life) events over online ones?</strong></p>
<p dir="ltr">Over 50% of the respondents chose “fully agree” to the statement while only 5 respondents chose either fully or partially disagree. We can conclude that women who had experience in an offline (in-real-life) event would still prefer the same setting in the future. However, of course, we cannot be sure how many women may have turned down this first event experience because it was offline. In other words, we do not know if the preference of women who had never attended any events. However, what we know is that mass majority of those who had one offline event experience would prefer the offline setting over an online participation.</p>
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<p dir="ltr"><strong>Cross-checking (D): Does socializing matter to women?</strong></p>
<p dir="ltr">Majority of the respondents fully agreed with the statement “I would like to socialize with and know more Wikipedians.” This is one of the very few questions where no one disagreed to. Although we cannot calculate the personal utility of socializing or conclude that socializing is “necessary” to make women feel more comfortable, we can assume that it will be a positive addition to the events if women can make new friends in the communities.</p>
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<p dir="ltr"><strong>Cross-checking (E): Are women interested in women-related topics? Or would they have preferred to write about their expertise areas?</strong></p>
<p dir="ltr">From the survey, we found that more women actually showed interest in writing on women-related topics than on their domain knowledge subjects. Over 80% of the respondents agreed that they were interested in writing more about women (and related topics) while slightly fewer women said the same about their expertise knowledge. Only 8 out of 64 respondents expressed a preference for writing on their domain knowledge topics over women-related topics. Hence, it seems that women-related topics are a good place to start (for one’s first Wikipedia event experience) as most women enjoyed it. One thing we are not able to estimate is how long can this interest be sustained.</p>
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<p style="text-align: center;" dir="ltr"><span id="docs-internal-guid-c206e32a-34fe-fe1e-4cf5-84dc39b46457"><img src="https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/AplHkWcumhKQK6sQErL9uY4CbD9GAMSPKEYLyM3jRjRF88IR3ucn3sJO7SqFsVjiLNHabLOEs5zqRfcqbiFgTIXoxaJkHBsvZqQ77SEFHsUpoDM30EkxmX7S-FXorT9gHkyZnn-O" alt="In a nutshell- research result.jpg" height="432" width="602" /></span></p>
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For more details visit <a href='http://editors.cis-india.org/a2k/blogs/preliminary-research-result-on-wikipedia-gender-gap-in-india'>http://editors.cis-india.org/a2k/blogs/preliminary-research-result-on-wikipedia-gender-gap-in-india</a>
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No publishertingCIS-A2KAccess to KnowledgeGenderwomen and internetSexual HarassmentWikipedia gender gapResearch2017-05-23T11:09:23ZBlog EntryWoman Alleges Harassment at Major International Conference
http://editors.cis-india.org/internet-governance/news/bangalore-mirror-march-30-2016-kavita-patil-woman-alleges-harassment-at-major-international-conference
<b>A prospective lawyer's name tag was flipped, and she was asked rude questions by a CEO at a conference, where, ironically enough, she was invited to devise sexual harassment policies.
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<p style="text-align: justify; ">The article by Kavita Patil was <a class="external-link" href="http://www.bangaloremirror.com/bangalore/others/Woman-alleges-harassment-at-major-international-conference/articleshow/51605662.cms">published in Bangalore Mirror</a> on March 30, 2016.</p>
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<p style="text-align: justify; ">Padmini Baruah, 22, a National Law School of India University (NLSIU) student representing Centre for Internet and Society (CIS), at the ICANN55 (Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers) held at Marrakech, alleged that she was sexually harassed by Khaled Fattal, the chairman and CEO of The Multilingual Internet Group.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">On March 2, Baruah had reached out to the conference ombudsman and expressed her concerns about the lack of a specific sexual harassment policy. She was directed to the ICANN55's Standards of Behavior, who invited her for a discussion at the conference in Marrakech.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">About three hours before her meeting with the ombudsman on March 6, she had a shock. "I was, unfortunately, subjected to sexual harassment in the nature of verbal remarks and infringement of my personal space by the perpetrator in question, a man I eventually came to know was called Khaled Fattal," she recalled. "Fattal approached me, pulled at my name tag, examined it and dropped it. A little later, he lifted my name tag and flipped it back and forth asking me, "Where are you from?"</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">He then leaned in, lecherously looked at me and asked, "Do you know how to make a cheese sandwich?" I was taken aback and responded angrily saying, "Yes, that is why I came here, to make you cheese sandwiches." He went on to throw another lecherous look my way and said, "Well, I love veg sandwiches."</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">Sunil Abraham, executive director of the CIS, said, "ICANN doesn't have a special cell where complaints can be raised but they have an ombudsman. The ombudsman is investigating the case and is in touch with both Baruah and also the perpetrator." He said after she raised the sexual harassment complaint, he received many mails from women who had faced harassment at the event but never made an attempt to raise their voice. "Through CIS we have issued a public statement of support for Baruah and we are waiting for the result of the investigation," he said.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">Fattal and the ombudsman were not available for comment despite repeated attempts made by BM to get a response. Baruah, meanwhile, was informed by the ombudsman that her's was the first harassment case reported in the history of ICANN.</p>
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For more details visit <a href='http://editors.cis-india.org/internet-governance/news/bangalore-mirror-march-30-2016-kavita-patil-woman-alleges-harassment-at-major-international-conference'>http://editors.cis-india.org/internet-governance/news/bangalore-mirror-march-30-2016-kavita-patil-woman-alleges-harassment-at-major-international-conference</a>
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No publisherpraskrishnaICANNInternet GovernanceSexual Harassment2016-03-30T17:06:10ZNews ItemICANN Sexual Harassment Case Highlights Lack of Procedure at Global Internet Body
http://editors.cis-india.org/internet-governance/news/the-wire-march-24-2016-icann-sexual-harassment-case-highlights-lack-of-procedure-at-global-internet-body
<b>Alleged perpetrator files counter-complaint with ombudsman’s office after being publicly identified.</b>
<p>The article was <a class="external-link" href="http://thewire.in/2016/03/24/icann-sexual-harassment-case-highlights-lack-of-procedure-at-global-internet-body-25728/">published in the Wire</a> on March 24, 2016.</p>
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<p style="text-align: justify; ">A female researcher associated with the Bangalore-based Centre for Internet and Society has alleged that she was sexually harassed at an ICANN (Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers) public meeting held in Morocco earlier this month, in an incident that highlights a lack of established procedure at the global body responsible for maintaining the technical backbone of the Internet.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">According to the woman, who is currently a law student but was representing CIS at the meeting, she was sexually harassed by a participant from the private sector constituency on March 6th at a working session.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">“I felt like my space and safety as a young woman in the ICANN community was at stake,” she said.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">ICANN-organised events currently do not have a formal redressal system for these type of complaints nor does it have a specific anti-sexual harassment committee to which community members can file an official complaint.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">The CIS representative, therefore, has taken up her case with ICANN’s ombudsman office, an office that does not have an explicit mandate to deal with incidents of sexual harassment.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">“I currently am unclear as to the exact status of my complaint. The ombudsman office does not have a clear sexual harassment procedure, it has only a standards of behaviour. When I first went to them, they told me nobody has officially complained of sexual harassment since 1998,” she told <i>The Wire</i>.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">“I understand the evidential burden that needs to be fulfilled for this [allegation] to be proven. I know it’s difficult to prove this. I just want an enquiry conducted properly and impartially.”</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">The Centre for Internet and Society released a sharp statement on Monday, pointing out that since the woman was “given no immediate remedy or formal recourse”, she had no choice but to make “the incident publicly known in the interim.”</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">CIS Executive Director Sunil Abraham pointed out that while the ombudsman office has been in touch with the organisation’s representative, “this administrative process is simply inadequate for rights-violation”.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">To that end, CIS has called upon ICANN to “institute a formal redressal system with regard to sexual harassment and institute an anti-sexual harassment committee that is neutral and approachable”.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">“Merely having an ombudsman who is a white male, however well intentioned, is inadequate and completely unhelpful to the complainant. The present situation is one where the ombudsman has no effective power and only advises the board ,” the CIS’s statement reads.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; "><strong>ICANN perspective</strong></p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">When asked for a comment, ICANN media representatives pointed <em>The Wire</em> to the written transcript of a public session in which this particular issue of sexual harassment was raised. In that meeting, ICANN board member Markus Kummer specifically condemns “improper conduct of any kind such as harassment” while calling for zero tolerance on such issues within the larger ICANN community.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">On the issue of whether ICANN could adopt a broader policy on sexual harassment, Kummer acknowledges that while the organisation’s expected standards of behaviour “could be a bit more specific as regards harassment”, the standards are applicable to “staff and board members and we have to undergo training”.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">“Now, we could also make this also available to the community but the board thought it might not be the appropriate way to go about and impose something on the community. It might be more appropriate for the community to come up with these standards…Let me once again assure the community that the board is fully cognizant of the importance of this issue and supports the community in developing standards that may be more explicit in regard of these issues,” Kummer is quoted as saying in the transcript.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; "><strong>Complaint, Counter-Complaint</strong></p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">The incident, however, took a different turn on Tuesday after the ICANN ombudsman wrote to the CIS representative informing her that the investigation had become “very difficult” because she had identified and named the alleged perpetrator in a public social media posting.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">“By naming [the alleged perpetrator] before the process was completed, this has meant that the confidentiality of my office has been compromised and his privacy has been compromised. Leaving aside the issue of whether he actually made the comments and behaved as you describe [sic], he is entitled to a fair and impartial investigation,” the ombudsman office’s letter says.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">The alleged perpetrator now, according to the letter, has filed a counter-complaint with the ombudsman and has asked the office to undertake an investigation into the female student’s actions in this regard.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">“I remind you that his [the perpetrator] initial response on the initial discussion was that he could not recall making the remark. So I sought your comments. I would have liked to take your comments back to him and had some form of conversation. This may still be possible but the force of your complaint is diluted by the problem of procedural fairness by the premature publication of his name,” the letter adds.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; "><strong>Cleaning up</strong></p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">While the CIS representative’s complaint may be the first officially recorded incident at an ICANN meeting, sexual harassment and inappropriate gender bias at numerous technical conferences across the world (ICANN or not) has been a <a href="http://geekfeminism.wikia.com/wiki/Timeline_of_incidents" target="_blank"><span>well-documented phenomenon</span></a>.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">In 2012, ICANN ombudsman Chris LaHette was forced to step in after a complaint was lodged regarding the <a href="http://domainincite.com/8146-hot-girls-land-cz-nic-in-hot-water" target="_blank"><span>insensitive advertising and promotion </span></a>surrounding the ICANN 44 meeting in Prague.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">While ICANN’s “expected standards of behaviour” – basically a code of conduct – explicitly states that all “members of the ICANN community be treated equally irrespective of nationality or gender..”, there is no official policy that states what aggrieved parties should do after an incident occurs.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">Such a policy must be created, CIS points out, and must be “displayed on the ICANN website, at the venue of meetings, and made available in delegate kits”.</p>
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For more details visit <a href='http://editors.cis-india.org/internet-governance/news/the-wire-march-24-2016-icann-sexual-harassment-case-highlights-lack-of-procedure-at-global-internet-body'>http://editors.cis-india.org/internet-governance/news/the-wire-march-24-2016-icann-sexual-harassment-case-highlights-lack-of-procedure-at-global-internet-body</a>
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No publisherpraskrishnaICANNInternet GovernanceSexual Harassment2016-04-01T15:42:49ZNews ItemSexual Harassment at ICANN
http://editors.cis-india.org/internet-governance/blog/sexual-harassment-at-icann
<b>Padmini Baruah represented the Centre for Internet & Society at ICANN in the month of March 2016. In a submission to ICANN she is calling upon the ICANN board for implementing a system for investigating cases related to sexual harassments. </b>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">On the 6th of March, 2016, Sunday, at about 10 am in the gNSO working session being conducted at the room Diamant, I was sexually harassed by someone from the private sector constituency named Khaled Fattal. He approached me, pulled at my name tag, and passed inappropriate remarks. I felt like my space and safety as a young woman in the ICANN community was at stake.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">I had incidentally been in discussion with the ICANN Ombudsman on developing a clear and coherent sexual harassment policy and procedure for the specific purposes of ICANN’s public meetings. Needless to say, this incident pushed me to take forward what had hitherto been a mere academic interest with increased vigour. I was amazed, firstly that the office of the ombudsman only had two white male members manning it. I was initially inhibited by that very fact, but made two points before them:</p>
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<p style="text-align: justify; ">I would like to put on record that the ombudsman office was extremely sympathetic and gave me a thorough hearing. They assured me that my individual complaint would be recorded, and sought to discuss the possibility of me raising a public statement with respect to policy, as they believed that the Board would be likely to take this suggestion up from a member of the community. I was also informed, astoundingly, <strong>that this was the first harassment case reported in the history of ICANN</strong>.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">I then, as a newcomer to the community, ran this idea of making a public statement by no means an easy task at all, given the attached stigma that comes with being branded a victim of a sexual crime by certain senior people within ICANN who had assured me that they would take my side in this regard. To my dismay, there were two strong stands of victim blaming and intimidation that I faced I was told, in some cases by extremely senior and well respected, prominent women in the ICANN community, that raising this issue up would demean my credibility, status and legitimacy in ICANN, and that my work would lose importance, and I would “...forever be branded as THAT woman.” My incident was also trivialised in offhand casual remarks such as “This happened because you are so pretty”, “Oh you filed a complaint, not against me I hope, ha ha” which all came from people who are very high up in the ICANN heirarchy. I was also asked if I was looking for money out of this. <a href="http://editors.cis-india.org/internet-governance/blog/sexual-harassment.pdf" class="internal-link">Click to read the full statement made to ICANN here</a>.</p>
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For more details visit <a href='http://editors.cis-india.org/internet-governance/blog/sexual-harassment-at-icann'>http://editors.cis-india.org/internet-governance/blog/sexual-harassment-at-icann</a>
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No publisherpadminiSexual HarassmentICANNInternet GovernancePrivacy2016-04-06T14:40:55ZBlog Entry