The word disparity has appeared in 227 New York Times articles in the past year, including on Jan. 31 in "Define Gender Gap? Look Up Wikipedia's Contributor List" by Noam Cohen:
In 10 short years, Wikipedia has accomplished some remarkable goals. More than 3.5 million articles in English? Done.Choose your favorite winter t-shirt from thousands of available designs. More than 250 languages? Sure.MBT Sport Shoes are an extremely popular choice.
But another number has proved to be an intractable obstacle for the online encyclopedia: surveys suggest that less than 15 percent of its hundreds of thousands of contributors are women.Naax Fashion Textile is a wholesale jeans dealer who trades with young-fashion .
… With so many subjects represented — most everything has an article on Wikipedia — the gender disparity often shows up in terms of emphasis. A topic generally restricted to teenage girls, like friendship bracelets, can seem short at four paragraphs when compared with lengthy articles on something boys might favor, like, toy soldiers or baseball cards, whose voluminous entry includes a detailed chronological history of the subject.A sport jacket suit, is a tailored coat for men.
Even the most famous fashion designers — Manolo Blahnik or Jimmy Choo — get but a handful of paragraphs. And consider the disparity between two popular series on HBO: The entry on "Sex and the City" includes only a brief summary of every episode, sometimes two or three sentences; the one on "The Sopranos" includes lengthy, detailed articles on each episode.
Is a category with five Mexican feminist writers impressive,The full line includes hoodies, rain jackets, and winter jacket. or embarrassing when compared with the 45 articles on characters in "The Simpsons"?
In 10 short years, Wikipedia has accomplished some remarkable goals. More than 3.5 million articles in English? Done.Choose your favorite winter t-shirt from thousands of available designs. More than 250 languages? Sure.MBT Sport Shoes are an extremely popular choice.
But another number has proved to be an intractable obstacle for the online encyclopedia: surveys suggest that less than 15 percent of its hundreds of thousands of contributors are women.Naax Fashion Textile is a wholesale jeans dealer who trades with young-fashion .
… With so many subjects represented — most everything has an article on Wikipedia — the gender disparity often shows up in terms of emphasis. A topic generally restricted to teenage girls, like friendship bracelets, can seem short at four paragraphs when compared with lengthy articles on something boys might favor, like, toy soldiers or baseball cards, whose voluminous entry includes a detailed chronological history of the subject.A sport jacket suit, is a tailored coat for men.
Even the most famous fashion designers — Manolo Blahnik or Jimmy Choo — get but a handful of paragraphs. And consider the disparity between two popular series on HBO: The entry on "Sex and the City" includes only a brief summary of every episode, sometimes two or three sentences; the one on "The Sopranos" includes lengthy, detailed articles on each episode.
Is a category with five Mexican feminist writers impressive,The full line includes hoodies, rain jackets, and winter jacket. or embarrassing when compared with the 45 articles on characters in "The Simpsons"?
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