Around 80% of the top observers are male and it’s even higher looking at the top identifiers. I haven’t come up with a satisfying explanation, but maybe someone else can?

I just had a good smile at your post - and thank you! Here in New Jersey there are a lot of active women on iNaturalist, also on the leaderboards :)

I think there’re just more deep scientists with tons of photos, collected through years, or will to identify. There’s nothing that stops women to get accounts on iNat. About some communities. All local birds clubs for school students consist of 99% femles, but there’re much more professional ornith…

Sexism is well-documented and reported. The patriarchy is strong. I don’t see any reason why iNaturalist users would be any different. This is definitely something that affects ALL of us, even male users. Thanks for bringing this to attention. At the very least we should all be more aware of how we …

I don’t generally notice the observer of an observation. A day or two ago, I joined a project to help a poster ID a leaf disease, only to notice at the end of it that it was in fact myself that I was helping. I am more verbose when I think the observer might still be using the platform, but I woul…

[image] gnat79: Do you feel more confident correcting an observation posted by someone that might seem to be female? How do you phrase comments? [image] clay_s: Should people be trying to be more aware of the gender they are posting to Personally, I don’t think it’s important to know t…

To clarify my comments: When I suggest people be aware of themselves when they are posting or correcting, I really just mean we MEN have to be look at our behavior carefully. When we examine our behavior with an open mind, critically, we may see that we come up short at times, and those times are po…

We should treat people the same, IMO. Women do stereo typing themselves. They should be included in your MEN suggestions as well.

Everyone is judgmental by nature. Everyone stereotypes. Everyone should be self-aware when they interact with each other. The self-awareness should come with awareness of historical and societal flaws and with empathy for how others may have been affected. Sometimes society needs to rectify wrongs. …

Having spent 30 years teaching field biology at a women’s college (now Coed) the question was how do we get women to go into science. If we see an imbalance in iNaturalist we should be asking how do we make walking in the woods feel safe. I hope the old stereotypes are going, when I trained Boy Scou…

Why is iNat male-dominated?

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cas4moss September 22, 2019, 9:21pm 77

Survey results are up! https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/results-from-recent-brief-survey-of-inat-users/6697

Topic		Replies	Views
Results from recent brief survey of iNat users General	66	4270	November 2, 2019
What is it that you love about iNat? General	66	2883	October 16, 2022
What can iNaturalist do to better support people of color? General	123	12124	November 6, 2020
How many followers do you have on iNat? General	43	1947	September 10, 2022
Defending iNaturalist on social media General	56	2579	July 20, 2024

Why is iNat male-dominated?

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