There are lots of related discussions on the talk page:<div><a href="https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property_talk:P21">https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property_talk:P21</a></div><div><br></div><div>Translation seems like one of the major issues!</div>
<div><br></div><div>So far, sex and gender are not distinguished as far as I can tell. </div><div><br></div><div>-Jodi<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, May 22, 2013 at 1:36 PM, Powers <span dir="ltr">&lt;<a href="mailto:LtPowers_Wiki@rochester.rr.com" target="_blank">LtPowers_Wiki@rochester.rr.com</a>&gt;</span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">I wonder if that&#39;s a translation issue.  English Wikipedia is mostly<br>
concerned with gender, but other languages might only consider sex, or use<br>
the same word for both concepts.<br>
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&gt; -----Original Message-----<br>
&gt; From: Ryan Kaldari [mailto:<a href="mailto:rkaldari@wikimedia.org">rkaldari@wikimedia.org</a>]<br>
&gt; Sent: Tuesday 21 May 2013 19:07<br>
&gt; To: Increasing female participation in Wikimedia projects<br>
&gt; Subject: [Gendergap] Sex Ratios in Wikidata, Wikipedias, and VIAF<br>
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&gt; An interesting blog post about sex ratio data from Wikipedia and Wikidata:<br>
&gt; <a href="http://hangingtogether.org/?p=2877" target="_blank">http://hangingtogether.org/?p=2877</a><br>
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&gt; Interestingly, Wikidata only allows assigning a &#39;sex&#39; to a person, not a<br>
&gt; &#39;gender&#39;.<br>
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&gt; Ryan Kaldari<br>
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