Hey :)
forwarding a nice overview
Cheers Lydia
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This is a tool done by Envel Le Hir using WikiData and published today.
I actually inspired him the idea during a conference, when talking of my desire to get generic data about women professionnal occupation. My main argument is that I felt many of the added biographies about women were about actors, singers, or football players. Much less about politicians and business. But it was a "guess" and I wanted more hard data.
And apparently... he got busy
http://tools.dicare.org/gaps/gender.php
Ok. Hard data (1950-2005 birth dates): * 80% of the biographies of porn actors are about women. * 98.3% of beauty pageant contestants are about women. * 24% of politicians are about women * 8.4% of computer scientists are about women.
Or ... In Algeria... the more popular occupation of women by far is... Volley Ball ! In France... actors. And in Guinea... well... hard to say... only 17 biographies about Guinean women anyway.
Florence
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Yes I looked at this last fall and realized we need to do some cleanup on this. For the "Sum of all Paintings" project we have made sure that all women who have made a painting in one of the large painting collections has been given the occupation "painter". This is much more fuzzy for women writers, who might be poets, playwrights, journalists and so on. There are interesting differences per language wiki besides the sports (more table tennis players in asian languages, more ice skaters in Dutch etc). I made a few overviews like this one: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Gendergap_-_female_percentage_per_oc...
It would be nice if people would think about the occupations a bit more when adding items about people in general, not just women!
On Wed, Mar 8, 2017 at 5:56 PM, Lydia Pintscher < lydia.pintscher@wikimedia.de> wrote:
Hey :)
forwarding a nice overview
Cheers Lydia
---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Florence Devouard fdevouard@gmail.com Date: Wed, Mar 8, 2017 at 2:01 PM Subject: [Wikimedia-l] Occupation of Women on WikiData To: wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org
This is a tool done by Envel Le Hir using WikiData and published today.
I actually inspired him the idea during a conference, when talking of my desire to get generic data about women professionnal occupation. My main argument is that I felt many of the added biographies about women were about actors, singers, or football players. Much less about politicians and business. But it was a "guess" and I wanted more hard data.
And apparently... he got busy
http://tools.dicare.org/gaps/gender.php
Ok. Hard data (1950-2005 birth dates):
- 80% of the biographies of porn actors are about women.
- 98.3% of beauty pageant contestants are about women.
- 24% of politicians are about women
- 8.4% of computer scientists are about women.
Or ... In Algeria... the more popular occupation of women by far is... Volley Ball ! In France... actors. And in Guinea... well... hard to say... only 17 biographies about Guinean women anyway.
Florence
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