Dale is a Woman and Kris is a Man
These days it’s nearly impossible to guess the gender of an author by their name alone, much less figure it out on an authors name from a far away land where we’re not familiar with the naming conventions of their culture.
We’re considering adding the GENDER [M] [F] database field for all members so that we can learn more about the demographics of our members and so that we can respond via email without embarrassing ourselves with the wrong pronouns.
I know we could also provide useful data once we have a complete enough sampling of our members data… and we could also (not sure if we would ever do this) put a pink or blue symbol next to the authors article to indicate gender so that a person could then also search articles by gender…
What do you think?
I see the obvious benefits of being able to look at the data demographics for male and female writers.
Don’t think I would want a blue symbol by my name tho………..
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