There are lots of related discussions on the talk page:

https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property_talk:P21

Translation seems like one of the major issues!

So far, sex and gender are not distinguished as far as I can tell. 

-Jodi

On Wed, May 22, 2013 at 1:36 PM, Powers <LtPowers_Wiki@rochester.rr.com> wrote:

I wonder if that's a translation issue.  English Wikipedia is mostly
concerned with gender, but other languages might only consider sex, or use
the same word for both concepts.


Powers  &8^]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ryan Kaldari [mailto:rkaldari@wikimedia.org]
> Sent: Tuesday 21 May 2013 19:07
> To: Increasing female participation in Wikimedia projects
> Subject: [Gendergap] Sex Ratios in Wikidata, Wikipedias, and VIAF
>
> An interesting blog post about sex ratio data from Wikipedia and Wikidata:
> http://hangingtogether.org/?p=2877
>
> Interestingly, Wikidata only allows assigning a 'sex' to a person, not a
> 'gender'.
>
> Ryan Kaldari
>



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