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- While there’s been some progress in closing gender equity gaps, today, only 19% of the biographies on Wikipedia are about women. That means out of the almost two million biographies, less than 400,000 of them are about women.
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In 2023, a study conducted by Akhil Arora, Robert West and Martin Gerlach showed that biographies of women are over-represented among orphan articles (articles that cannot be accessed via other articles): in English Wikipedia, women represent 19% of the biographies, but also represent 29% of orphan biographies. [69]
Mar 1, 2023 · Yet, of nearly 2 million biographies on Wikipedia, only around 400,000 are about women presently. Closing the gap still has a ways to go — thankfully people like Rosie and projects like Women in Red exist.
Jun 27, 2021 · From January 2017 to February 2020, the number of biographies about women on English-language Wikipedia rose from 16.83% to 18.25%, 8 yet the percentage of biographies about women nominated for deletion each month was consistently over 25%. Some months, it was much higher.
- Francesca Tripodi
- 2021
Oct 17, 2022 · Just 19 percent of English Wikipedia biographies are of women, according to WikiProject Women in Red, a group dedicated to addressing Wikipedia’s gender gap.
- Sydney Page
Mar 8, 2021 · On English Wikipedia, fewer than 20% of biographies are about women, and fewer than 20% of editors identify as women — stats that undoubtedly worsen when considering articles by and about Black people, Indigenous people, and people of color.
Jul 13, 2021 · On Wikipedia, gender inequality is hiding in plain sight. Of more than a million and a half biographies - that's on the English-language version - fewer than 19% are about women.
Mar 8, 2024 · While there’s been some progress in closing gender equity gaps, today, only 19% of the biographies on Wikipedia are about women. That means out of the almost two million biographies, less than 400,000 of them are about women.
