  Previous research has shown the existence of gender biases in the depiction
of professions and occupations in search engine results. Such an unbalanced
presentation might just as likely occur on Wikipedia, one of the most popular
knowledge resources on the Web, since the encyclopedia has already been found
to exhibit such tendencies in past studies. Under this premise, our work
assesses gender bias with respect to the content of German Wikipedia articles
about professions and occupations along three dimensions: used male vs. female
titles (and redirects), included images of persons, and names of professionals
mentioned in the articles. We further use German labor market data to assess
the potential misrepresentation of a gender for each specific profession. Our
findings in fact provide evidence for systematic over-representation of men on
all three dimensions. For instance, for professional fields dominated by
females, the respective articles on average still feature almost two times more
images of men; and in the mean, 83% of the mentioned names of professionals
were male and only 17% female.
