[EC-NCSG] Gender, region & application form

[Rudi Vansnick]

Dear Tapani,

One aspect I would highlight here (as a European) : the privacy rules for Europe are quite interesting and we should ask ourselves if the info is requested by an USA based organisation or not ? If yes, requesting gender information would require in Belgium at least some extra procedures. 

Based on the names very often it is possible to define the gender of the person. In the context of NPOC, we only have organisations and as such the gender is less critical material, at the end it is the organisation joining NPOC.

My 2cents input

Rudi Vansnick
Chair Non-for-Profit Operational Concerns Constituency (NPOC)
www.npoc.org <http://www.npoc.org/>

rudi.vansnick at npoc.org
Tel : +32 (0)9 329 39 16
Mobile : +32 (0)475 28 16 32



> Op 6-aug.-2015, om 08:49 heeft Tapani Tarvainen <ncuc at tapani.tarvainen.info> het volgende geschreven:
> 
> Dear all,
> 
> NCUC wants to make statistics about its members' gender
> distribution.
> 
> Does anyone see any problems in asking that in NCSG
> membership application form, probably as a radio button
> type selection male/female/other?
> (I'm open to allowing also "don't want to tell",
> perhaps implicitly by not making the field mandatory.)
> 
> Also, if it is added, should it also apply to
> organizational members' representatives?
> 
> Another item regarding the application form, it would
> be nice to force consistency in country names.
> At least that would make it easier to make statistics
> of regional distributions.
> I'm not sure how that should be made, but a drop-down
> list would be an obvious possibility (even though
> it'd be annoyingly long and sooner or later something will
> be found missing and maybe cause even political quarrels).
> 
> -- 
> Tapani Tarvainen
> 
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