Women through the glass ceiling: gender asymmetries in Wikipedia

EPJ Data Science

Table 5 Linguistic bias

	% in men	% in women	\(\boldsymbol{\chi^{2}}\)	w	% change
Abstract positive	27.96	25.53	933.7^∗∗∗	0.04	8.69
Abstract negative	13.47	13.69	6.26^∗∗	0.005	−1.62

Comparison of the ratios of abstract terms among positive and negative terms for men and women. Slightly more abstract terms are used for positive aspects in men’s biographies, while slightly more abstract terms are used for negative aspects in women’s biographies. ^∗∗∗: p<0.001, ^∗∗: p<0.01.