Figure 1

Men-women ratio. Ratio of men to women included in N language editions before 1900 (left) and since 1900 (right), as a function of N. The gender gap since 1900 is larger for people with low or medium global notability than for the global superstars. The empirical ratio is smoothed with locally weighted regression (solid lines) and compared with a baseline obtained by random shuffling of genders (dashed lines).