What data is there to support the claim that the majority of WP editors are “young, white, child-free men.”  ? The 2011 editor survey

https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Editor_Survey_2011

shows the majority are male, but not exactly young (although I guess it depends what you mean by “young”) and I don’t recall any question about children.

Kerry

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From: gendergap-bounces@lists.wikimedia.org [mailto:gendergap-bounces@lists.wikimedia.org] On Behalf Of Carol Moore dc
Sent: Friday, 1 August 2014 11:04 PM
To: Increasing female participation in Wikimedia projects
Subject: [Gendergap] Government-Funded Study: Why Is Wikipedia Sexist?

http://freebeacon.com/issues/government-funded-study-why-is-wikipedia-sexist/
Government-Funded Study: Why Is Wikipedia Sexist?
$202,000 to address ‘gender bias’ in world’s biggest online encyclopedia
BY: Elizabeth Harrington

Coincidentally(?) even as we're trying to get the Task Force more together, there have been raging discussions on WP:ANI and Jimmy Wales talk page about this issue.  Someone posted this article link on the talk page.