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Gender gap

A gender gap is a relative disparity between people of different genders. It's reflected in a variety of sectors in many societies. There exist differences between men and women as reflected in social, political, intellectual, cultural, scientific, and economic attainments or attitudes.

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A gender gap is a relative disparity between people of different genders. It's reflected in a variety of sectors in many societies. There exist differences between men and women as reflected in social, political, intellectual, cultural, scientific, and economic attainments or attitudes.1

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See also

See also

  • Ford, H., & Wajcman, J. (2017). ‘Anyone can edit’, not everyone does: Wikipedia’s infrastructure and the gender gap. Social Studies of Science, 47(4), 511-527. https://doi.org/10.1177/03063127176921724
References

References

  1. "What is the gender gap (and why is it getting wider)?". World Economic Forum. Retrieved 2020-10-27.
  2. De Andrés del Campo, Susana; Collado Alonso, Rocío; García-Lomas Taboada, José Ignacio (2020-06-19). "Brechas digitales de género. Una revisión del concepto". Etic@net. Revista científica electrónica de Educación y Comunicación en la Sociedad del Conocimiento. 20 (1): 34–58. doi:10.30827/eticanet.v20i1.15521. ISSN 1695-324X.
  3. Bayerl, Andreas; Dover, Yaniv; Riemer, Hila; Shapira, Daniel (2024). "Gender rating gap in online reviews". Nature Human Behaviour. 9 (3): 507–520. doi:10.1038/s41562-024-02003-6. PMID 39375542.
  4. Ford, H., & Wajcman, J. (2017). ‘Anyone can edit’, not everyone does: Wikipedia’s infrastructure and the gender gap. Social Studies of Science, 47(4), 511-527. https://doi.org/10.1177/0306312717692172