[NCUC-DISCUSS] NCUC Diversity Matters

Tapani Tarvainen ncuc at tapani.tarvainen.info
Thu Aug 6 08:39:09 CEST 2015


One additional question about recording gender:
should organizational members' representatives'
genders also be recorded?

Tapani

On Aug 05 14:44, William Drake (william.drake at uzh.ch) wrote:

> Yes your’e right Andrew, if we include that category that is better.
> 
> BD
> 
> > On Aug 5, 2015, at 2:38 PM, Andrew A. Adams <aaa at meiji.ac.jp> wrote:
> > 
> > 
> > Bill,
> > 
> > On gender, please use "Male/Female/Other" rather than "Male/Female/Not Known" 
> > since not everyone actually fits into the binary distinction and allocating 
> > them into a "does not want to say/has not said" is inaccurate. There's not 
> > generally a need to split "other" out since it is a small section of the 
> > population with enough diversity within it to make it not so useful to break 
> > it down otherwise.

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Tapani Tarvainen



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