"The government is spending big bucks to find out why Wikipedia is so sexist.... Last year, a New York Times op-ed called out Wikipedia for having a separate section dedicated to female novelists after the writers were removed from the “American Novelists” page. And others have grumbled that entries on supposedly male-centered subjects like baseball cards and “The Sopranos” are much longer than posts on topics that might be more appealing to women."
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