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August 6, 2011

Only 13% Female: Is Wikipedia Sexist, Too?

Hank Campbell, Science 2.0


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In Proofiness - How Gender And Pay Statistics Are Used To Do Bad Things, I noted that some of the statistics regarding gender and pay in science were misconstrued to make it look like science academia is sexist as opposed to simply being unequal in places.

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TAGGED: Women, academia, Gender Gap, sexism, Wikipedia

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