Is Wikipedia mansplaining the world to you? Depending on where you sit on the feminist spectrum, this may or may not be something you're inclined to even notice. But whether you're sensitive to the nuances of gender bias or not, there's evidence to suggest that the answer is that yes, Wikipedia is sexist. Using computational linguistics, a team of researchers from Germany and Switzerland says they've uncovered an anti-female bias across Wikipedia's millions of articles. They also analyzed the hyperlinked relationships between pages and found that articles about women linked to articles about men much more frequently than...
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