- From: Daniel Appelquist <dan@torgo.com>
- Date: Mon, 15 Apr 2019 18:23:36 +0000
- To: "lw@tetralogical.com" <lw@tetralogical.com>
- Cc: "public-idcg@w3.org" <public-idcg@w3.org>
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The UK has so-called protected characteristics (see https://www.gov.uk/discrimination-your-rights) in law. Could this be a useful guide? BTW I like just asking for "Gender Identity" rather than gender & sex - and making this a free-text entry rather than multiple choice. We wrote a blog post about this: https://medium.com/samsung-internet-dev/how-to-collect-gender-data-a29f3be2257c Dan ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐ Original Message ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐ On Monday, 15 April 2019 18:54, Léonie Watson <lw@tetralogical.com> wrote: > Everyone, > > Following up on this to see if we can make some progress. > > As a first step it might help us to identify the sort of data we're > looking for. I think it might make sense to keep things simple, so perhaps: > > - Nationality > - First/preferred language > - Disability > - Gender identity > > Thoughts? > > On 29/03/2019 11:08, Léonie Watson wrote: > > > > Everyone, > > At the meeting during TPAC we agreed we wanted to know more about the > > current state of diversity at W3C. I'd like us to make a start on this > > if we can. > > I think the only way to collect this information is to ask people, and > > to ask them in a way that protects their anonymity. I might be wrong > > about this of course, there may be much better ways! > > If this is the right approach though, we'll need to find a platform to > > host the survey that protects people's privacy, and to design a set of > > questions to ask. > > If anyone has ideas on how to approach this activity, ideas about > > platforms, or experience of designing the appropriate questions, that > > would be very welcome. > > Léonie. > > -- > > @TetraLogical TetraLogical.com
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