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Wikidata lists 39857 depictions of men, compared to 23673 of women (37%).

However, this includes non-human characters. Limited to humans, there are 23653 men and 8343 women (26%).

And when counting *distinct* subjects, the ratio drops to 19% (2238 women, 9536 men).

10/26/2018, 1:55:06 PM

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Here’s the query (I couldn’t fit it in the previous tweet): https://query.wikidata.org/#%23%20number%20of%20depicted%20subjects%20by%20gender%0A%23%20uncomment%20the%20last%20part%20of%20line%207%20to%20limit%20the%20query%20to%20human%20subjects%2C%0A%23%20and%20change%20%3Fdepicted%20to%20DISTINCT%20%3Fdepicted%20in%20line%205%20to%20only%20count%20each%20subject%20once%20regardless%20of%20how%20many%20works%20depict%20them%0ASELECT%20%3Fgender%20%3FgenderLabel%20%3Fcount%20WITH%20%7B%0A%20%20SELECT%20%3Fgender%20%28COUNT%28%3Fdepicted%29%20AS%20%3Fcount%29%20WHERE%20%7B%0A%20%20%20%20%3Fwork%20wdt%3AP180%20%3Fdepicted.%0A%20%20%20%20%3Fdepicted%20%23%20wdt%3AP31%20wd%3AQ5%3B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20wdt%3AP21%20%3Fgender.%0A%20%20%7D%0A%20%20GROUP%20BY%20%3Fgender%0A%7D%20AS%20%25results%20WHERE%20%7B%0A%20%20INCLUDE%20%25results.%0A%20%20FILTER%28%21ISBLANK%28%3Fgender%29%29%0A%20%20SERVICE%20wikibase%3Alabel%20%7B%20bd%3AserviceParam%20wikibase%3Alanguage%20%22%5BAUTO_LANGUAGE%5D%2Cen%22.%20%7D%0A%7D%0AORDER%20BY%20DESC%28%3Fcount%29%0A%23%20%28note%20that%20this%20query%20doesn%E2%80%99t%20group%20any%20genders%20together%20automatically%2C%20but%20when%20using%20this%20data%2C%0A%23%20you%20should%20probably%20do%20so%20manually%20%E2%80%93%20e.%E2%80%AFg.%20include%20transgender%20%3Cgender%3E%20in%20the%20numbers%20for%20%3Cgender%3E%2C%20in%20accordance%20with%20their%20%E2%80%9Csubclass%20of%E2%80%9D%20statements%29

10/26/2018, 1:55:06 PM

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There is also one non-binary human subject (Rae Spoon), one hermaphrodite (Hermaphroditus, depicted five times) and one androgyne (Kasshiki).

10/26/2018, 1:55:06 PM

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Note also that the query doesn’t place any restrictions on the item depicting the subjects (*presumably* some kind work of art, but not limited to e. g. paintings) – for example, the work depicting Rae Spoon is a film. https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q15222789

10/26/2018, 1:55:07 PM

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