How gender inequality is reproduced on social media
Thursday, January 24, 2019 - 08:20
in Mathematics & Economics
Researchers from the Higher School of Economics analyzed 62 million public posts on the most popular Russian social networking site VK and found that both men and women mention sons more often than daughters. They also found that posts featuring sons receive 1.5 times more likes. The results have been published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.