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Study: Men Control Wikipedia

GENDER GAP

Contributors are 87 percent male.

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How egalitarian is this? According to a recently published study, only about 13 percent of those who edit or write articles for Wikipedia are women—the average Wikipedia contributor is a male in his mid-20s.

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