Low participation of women is not only a Wikipedia issue. As we know, the same pattern is found in the social and political participation areas of our "advanced" societies, but there are exceptions. I want to share some details on women in national parliaments and compare it to women presence in wikis:

Country - Year - Women (%)
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Cuba - 2013 - 48.9%

Ecuador - 2013 - 41.6%

Colombia - 2014 - 19.9%

Saudi Arabia - 2013 - 19.9%

United States - 2014 - 19.4%

Uncyclopedia - 2008 - 9.6%

Wikipedia - 2011 - 8.5%

Source: http://www.ipu.org/wmn-e/classif.htm

Did you excepted this numbers? Just my two cents.

2015-06-02 2:09 GMT+02:00 Jason Radford <jsradford@uchicago.edu>:

Hi,

Since participating in the Inspire campaign, I got interested in the question of exactly how many women would be needed on Wikipedia to close the gender gap. I ran some simulations and came up with some fairly radical numbers. For example, according to my calculations, there are so few current and new female editors that, even if every current and new active, female editor stayed active for ten years, we wouldn't close the gap.

I've posted the results to my blog. It's password protected so I can share the results and get feedback without making it pubic. You can access them by using the password "wikipedia". I'm hoping some of you with experience researching gender representation on Wikipedia would be able to catch any errors.

Thanks!
Jason
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