Is There a Female Gender Bias in Wikipedia?

[Guest]

Wikipedia is geared much more to a male audience than to females, a new study published by the University of Minnesota suggests.

Is There a Female Gender Bias in Wikipedia? : Read more

 

[Guest]

It couldnt possibly be a lack of intellect

 

[amirp]

there can only be so many articles about kitchens and sandwich-making on wiki

 

[silver565]

Oh god...

Do we need a support group too?

 

[Avro Arrow]

zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz

 

[AbdullahG]

Please, if you guys are going to bring up sexist remarks, do it somewhere else. This isn't a website for people like you, it is for people with at least an average IQ (that would be +100). Then again, I highly doubt you have an IQ above 25...

 

[afrobacon]

I have always found females to be more argumentative in general. Never had much inclination to fight with them though.

 

[cold fire]

[citation][nom]anon23333333[/nom]It couldnt possibly be a lack of intellect[/citation]
Comment of the month.

 

[silver565]

It's wikipedia?

I don't see how this ONE website will harm women in any way at all. Women are just as capable as men. Heck the CEO of Yahoo is a woman.

By the sounds of it, Wikipedia just haven't found the right sort of people. I doubt this would be a sexist thing at all. You might as well say that female builders are useless because they're a minority in their industry.

Women are just as equal to men. Just because they aren't huge in one field doesn't mean that field is sexist. Of course their work is twice as likely to be edited... there are more men there.

There are more female teachers than men. Who cares?

 

[Gamer-girl]

It could be that the majority of females do not classify editing Wikipedia as fun or enjoyable - that would be the simplest explanation.

It could also be that because anything that is a male dominated area, most males act differently than if they were in a 50/50 group. Am i wrong? Do you you guys act differently if you think that there are no girls around that can see or hear you?

If any girl shows interest in a male orientated subject she will have to deal with the stereotype of females not being able to contribute anything worth while to the subject.

Also girls have *feelings* and tend to take things personally.
- This is also based on my own experience,

 

[AbdullahG]

@Gamer-girl Finally, someone with some common sense!

 

[CaedenV]

[citation]Descriptions of movies that are more likely to attract women have a lower quality level than descriptions of movies that may be seen primarily by males. "Overall, Wikipedia seems to be growing in a way that is biased toward topics of interest to males," the researchers concluded.[/citation]
hmmm how much you want to bet it was men who did this study lol

 

[mortsmi7]

So women are too busy playing farmville to update wikipedia....

j/k

 

[jonnyberthiaume]

I don't know, maybe the fact that men are more generally objective and women are more generally subjective doesn't help in a context where subjectivity shouldn't be... If I read about an electron, I really dont need to know how the electron "feel"...

I don't say that women cannot be objective, they just are more incline to see things thru their own emotions than men. For some subjects it's good, for some other it's bad. It's probably more a matter of what kind of subject there is on Wikipedia.

 

[Kamab]

I don't really see an interesting take-away from this article.

Next up: Study shows that more men read reddit compared to women.

After that: More Men on 4chan than Women?

More interestingly:

http://www.allbestarticles.com/internet/internet-marketing/men-and-women-do-not-use-the-internet-the-same-way.html

 

[velocityg4]

Given that there is no one in a decision making position excluding females I don't see any sort of gender bias. Rather it is more a reflection that women are either generally less interested in Wikipedia or are simply not as interested in contributing.

 

[Pyree]

[citation][nom]Gamer-girl[/nom]It could also be that because anything that is a male dominated area, most males act differently than if they were in a 50/50 group. Am i wrong? Do you you guys act differently if you think that there are no girls around that can see or hear you?[/citation]
OMG, you read my mind!
Girls around: Be nice and friendly to the girls, keep personal hygiene and etiquette as well as showing off how awesome I am.
Just bros: S'up bro! and forget about etiquette and hygiene and no show off because we know we are all losers.
Girls probably think I am a jerk now but in my defense, I don't agree with my bros when the conversation turns demeaning or discriminatory against women.

 

[JOSHSKORN]

Could it be because more men read wikipedia and women would rather read some fiction book than something factual? Just sayin'...

 

[bison88]

The Internet recognizes no sexual orientation unless one claims to be. This isn't a gender bias this is just retarded bullshit to stir up the genders. You can come up with a statistic about anything if you wanted to and make a story out of it.

 

[cognoscentiable]

The information they add and edit is reverted or changed because it's wrong, not because of the gender of the person that added it.

If there's a lack of information in 'articles geared toward women' what's stopping more women becoming editors? Am I misunderstanding what wikipedia is? I'm not seeing a bias, just a lack of female contribution.