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2026-05-28 16:01 UTC
Update. "Studies have shown that [academic] women…are less likely to have a #Wikipedia biography than their male counterparts, and that, when they have a biography, it tends to be underdeveloped…Therefore, a number of projects have been created to increase women’s coverage on Wikipedia…The trend reversed in 2022, and women were 25% more likely than men to have a Wikipedia biography in 2024. In addition, women’s biographies tend to be longer than those of men."
https://royalsocietypublishing.org/rspb/article-abstract/293/2071/20252566/481904/Monitoring-the-gender-gap-in-the-coverage-of
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@petersuber@fediscience.org 2026-06-03 18:19
Update. "An analysis of first and last authorship in journals tracked by Nature Index reveals a persistent gender imbalance…indicating that recognition in top-tier academic publishing has not kept pace with women’s growing presence in research. Among the natural-sciences journals tracked by the index, women represented 29% of first-author positions and 17% of last-author positions in 2025. These figures have improved only slightly over the past decade." https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-026-01495-8 Also see the data. https://www.nature.com/nature-index/author-gender-ratio #Gender #GenderBias