Talk:Sex differences in social capital

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Contested deletion
This page should not be speedy deleted because whilst there is an existing article on social capital it does not cover the vast body of literature specifically on gender and social capital that challenges the framework of the mainstream discussion on this subject. Whilst I did consider inserting a section on gender and social capital into this page, I did think that it would involve a more substantial re-write of the key definitions and theorists on this topic. A separate article on gender and social capital is of interest to people looking at 'gender' more broadly as well as those interested specifically in social capital.

All comments and guidance welcome! Feministgeo -- Feministgeo (talk) 11:58, 21 July 2011 (UTC)


 * As reviewing administrator, I first deleted it, but then restored it so you could consider a merge. See WP:CFORK -- we do not split a topic because there are different theoretical views. There are three acceptable ways to handle this. One is to add a section within the existing article; another is to do it as a spin-out article, as described there; the third is to rewrite this article so it is clearly on a different subject, not an alternative view.  I'd suggest trying first a merge.  To accommodate the different perspectives, you could start the section: "From the standpoint of feminist theory, "social capital" is treated in a somewhat different way... "


 * But certainly do not rewrite the existing main text of the article to "change the key definitions and theorists". That would probably be seen as disruptive editing, and will almost certainly immediately reverted. All points of view are accommodated with an article -- see WP:NPOV. When there is a minority group with a somewhat different view, we give it proportionate space within the article--space proportional to its representation in the academic and popular literature. Nor do we preach a particular POV--we just present it.  If you are going to say something as counter-intuitive as "social capital is women's capital" you need to explain this--the immediate reaction would be that there are different social networks in which  the two genders function. I'm not an expert here, but perhaps you could say expanding my suggestion in the paragraph above,  "From the standpoint of feminist theory, "social capital" is treated in a somewhat different way: it is used to represent the social network, dominated by women, from the economic network dominated by men" network, dominated ... " Good luck with it.    DGG ( talk ) 13:24, 21 July 2011 (UTC)


 * This is excellent advice and feedback - thank you so much, I really appreciate it. I will work on how to merge it with the SC entry and clarify the points that you raise above. -- Feministgeo (talk) 15:03, 21 July 2011 (UTC)


 * As part of Project Wikify I am re-proposing this article for deletion. Nothing has been done since the above discussions took place. Article needs to be re-writen and/or merged with Social Capital, per the guidance given by DGG --Will (talk) 20:17, 3 April 2012 (UTC)

Article relies heavily on very few of the multiple sources listed. The article would benefit from the addition of more sources and paragraph formatting that flows easily, as the article is hard to follow. Gdeeter (talk) 17:30, 12 October 2016 (UTC)

Sex and Gender are not interchangeable concepts... you can’t use the word sex differences for a social phenomenon; Sex differences means biological stuff - genitals, chromosomes, hormones (and more culturally relative things like amount of hair, facial, body etc) — Preceding unsigned comment added by 77.97.113.61 (talk) 05:02, 7 March 2019 (UTC)