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> A 2015 study by Claudia Wagner, et al, found that, on English Wikipedia, the word “divorced” appears 4.4 times more frequently in a biography of a woman than
by belorn 8y ago
> A 2015 study by Claudia Wagner, et al, found that, on English Wikipedia, the word “divorced” appears 4.4 times more frequently in a biography of a woman than of a man. For German and Russian Wikipedia that multiplier increases to 4.7 and 4.8 times, respectively. Why does divorce matter in the lives of women but not men? Prejudice can be very hard to see in ourselves.
Men on average are almost twice as likely to have never married. Men on average has an older age when entering the first marriage and has also lower divorce rates then women. Seem what the author is calling prejudice by the biography writers is a misrepresentation.