(Weitergeleitet Von Journalistin): the Gendered Presentation of Professions on Wikipedia

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(Weitergeleitet Von Journalistin): the Gendered Presentation of Professions on Wikipedia
Authors
Olga Zagovora
Fabian Flöck
Claudia Wagner
Publication date
2017
DOI
10.1145/3091478.3091488
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(Weitergeleitet Von Journalistin): the Gendered Presentation of Professions on Wikipedia - scientific work related to Wikipedia quality published in 2017, written by Olga Zagovora, Fabian Flöck and Claudia Wagner.

Overview

Previous research has shown the existence of gender biases in the depiction of professions and occupations in search engine results. Such an unbalanced presentation might just as likely occur on Wikipedia, one of the most popular knowledge resources on the Web, since the encyclopedia has already been found to exhibit such tendencies in past studies. Under this premise, work assesses gender bias with respect to the content of German Wikipedia articles about professions and occupations along three dimensions: used male vs. female titles (and redirects), included images of persons, and names of professionals mentioned in the articles. Authors further use German labor market data to assess the potential misrepresentation of a gender for each specific profession. Authors findings in fact provide evidence for systematic over-representation of men on all three dimensions. For instance, for professional fields dominated by females, the respective articles on average still feature almost two times more images of men; and in the mean, 83% of the mentioned names of professionals were male and only 17% female.

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Zagovora, Olga; Flöck, Fabian; Wagner, Claudia. (2017). "[[(Weitergeleitet Von Journalistin): the Gendered Presentation of Professions on Wikipedia]]".DOI: 10.1145/3091478.3091488.

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Zagovora, Olga; Flöck, Fabian; Wagner, Claudia. (2017). &quot;<a href="https://wikipediaquality.com/wiki/(Weitergeleitet_Von_Journalistin):_the_Gendered_Presentation_of_Professions_on_Wikipedia">(Weitergeleitet Von Journalistin): the Gendered Presentation of Professions on Wikipedia</a>&quot;.DOI: 10.1145/3091478.3091488.