Title: Measuring Gender Inequalities of German Professions on Wikipedia,
Abstract: Wikipedia is a community-created online encyclopedia; arguably, it is the
most popular and largest knowledge resource on the Internet. Thus, reliability
and neutrality are of high importance for Wikipedia. Previous research [3]
reveals gender bias in Google search results for many professions and
occupations. Also, Wikipedia was criticized for existing gender bias in
biographies [4] and gender gap in the editor community [5, 6]. Thus, one could
expect that gender bias related to professions and occupations may be present
in Wikipedia. The term gender bias is used here in the sense of conscious or
unconscious favoritism towards one gender over another [47] with respect to
professions and occupations. The objective of this work is to identify and
assess gender bias. To this end, the German Wikipedia articles about
professions and occupations were analyzed on three dimensions: redirections,
images, and people mentioned in the articles. This work provides evidence for
systematic overrepresentation of men in all three dimensions; female bias is
only present for a few professions.