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How Gender Inequality Is Reproduced on Social Media

How Gender Inequality Is Reproduced on Social Media
IOE researchers Elizaveta Sivak and Ivan Smirnov have analyzed over 60 million public posts on VK, the most popular Russian social networking site, to discover that both men and women mention sons more often than daughters. They have 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 of the United States of America.
Research & Expertise publications digital inequality social media
January 25, 2019

 

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