Notices by OpenSexism (opensexism@mastodon.world)

"“We found that children viewed girls as less capable of learning about novel and difficult STEM subjects compared to non-STEM subjects, but they perceived boys as similarly capable of learning both STEM and non-STEM subjects,” the authors write. These results are particularly distressing given that girls and boys perform equally well in science and math classes in elementary and middle school."

https://www.forbes.com/sites/kimelsesser/2024/09/13/gender-bias-in-stem-may-start-in-kindergarten-study-says/

"Despite the consistent quality of their research contributions, women in AI gain less visibility and recognition as their careers progress. Early-career women receive more recognition and support than mid- & late- career women. This highlights the need for more support and resources for women later in their careers."

https://medium.com/women-in-ai-ethics/big-tech-attracts-top-women-in-ai-but-smaller-companies-champions-have-an-edge-in-retention-aa6600dfcd2d

"As has been widely documented, housework and childcare demands fall on mothers significantly more than fathers regardless of children ages. Less well-known is the fact that housework and childcare time demands remain high even when children enter school and can be constraining for women who spend as many as 7 hours with children above 6 years old."

https://blogs.lse.ac.uk/politicsandpolicy/the-persisting-pay-gap-and-the-motherhood-penalty/

"Despite #Wikipedia’s aspiration to become a place to freely access “the sum of all knowledge” (Wikimedia Foundation, n.d.) and despite the impressive array of subject matter contained within it, the sum of all knowledge is not represented within. We observed widespread racist and sexist knowledge gaps, stereotypes, euphemisms, and misinformation in the Wikipedia articles related to our coursework."

https://online.ucpress.edu/cs/article/5/1/90253/199636

“I literally took my most autobiographical play, and I made me male. And I called it ‘Boy,’” Jordan said. “Almost immediately people wanted to produce it.”

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/01/07/theater/julia-jordan-lilly-awards-women-theater.html

"Wikipedia can be the mirror of society but also, given its influence, it can amplify and deepen its inequalities and imbalances (Miquel-Ribé; Laniado, 2021)."

"When women do participate on #Wikipedia, they often find themselves facing harassment and marginalization at the hands of male editors. These experiences create a hostile environment that makes it difficult for women to contribute freely and feel valued on the site. Their voices are silenced"

https://revista.profesionaldelainformacion.com/index.php/EPI/article/view/87476/63565

"An analysis of more than two million papers in the life sciences shows a strong gender bias in citations: papers with female lead authors get fewer citations than do those led by male authors in subsequent male-led papers. This pattern holds true in many subfields of the life sciences, including those with relatively equitable gender representation."

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-023-03474-9

"Some Wikipedia articles, known as ‘orphans,’ are linked to by no other Wikipedia page. Arora Et al refer to such articles as “the dark matter of Wikipedia” and found that orphan articles also “encode structural biases: biography articles about women are substantially more common among orphans than expected from their overall frequency.” The articles exist, but in the shadows where no one can stumble across them."

https://medium.com/p/90fbbaf7d182

Invisible in the Hyperlink Network:
One Hundred Weeks of the Wednesday Index

"Over the past two years, how far has the encyclopedia come in closing its structural gender gap?"

#wikipedia #wikidata

https://medium.com/@OpenSexism/invisible-in-the-hyperlink-network-90fbbaf7d182

"Framing Wikipedia as an active producer (rather than a reflection) of notability, we demonstrate that women are more likely to be awarded a #Wikipedia page after the award announcements or not at all if their contribution is for labour relating to the caring professions than if their service is for sports, arts and films, politics or the judiciary. We argue that Wikipedia's inability to recognise gendered care work as noteworthy is mirrored in its own practices"

https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/20539517231210276