Fabian,

I talked with Amanda Menking about this once, about a year ago. But no, I don't believe there has been any academic work on the issue (another consequence of our over-focus on enwiki). 

Mako Hill and Aaron Shaw presented a paper on redirects at WikiSym last year, and their enwiki corpus & methodology could help you or others extend that line of research into gendered languages: http://mako.cc/academic/hill_shaw-consider_the_redirect.pdf

Hope that helps!

- Jonathan

On Thu, Apr 2, 2015 at 1:28 PM, Flöck, Fabian <Fabian.Floeck@gesis.org> wrote:
Does anyone know about a study that looks at how often for example articles about a profession use the male instead of the female form as the name (female form doesn't exist or is just a redirect)?
Could also be about any other article titles that can take male/female forms.

It would probably not be a so much of an issue for English, but rather Spanish, German, Russian etc. Concrete example:  https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Professor exists in German, but https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Professorin is just a redirect.

Cheers,
Fabian



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