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According to ''New York Magazine'' in 2014, "Wikipedia famously bears one of the starkest gender gaps in contemporary culture."<ref name=Stoeffel>{{cite news | last = Stoeffel | first =Kat |title = Closing Wikipedia’s Gender Gap — Reluctantly | url = http://nymag.com/thecut/2014/02/closing-wikipedias-gender-gap-reluctantly.html | work = [[New York (magazine)|New York Magazine]] | date = 11 February 2014 }}</ref> Wikipedia "shares many characteristics with the hard-driving hacker crowd", according to [[Joseph Reagle]] of Harvard's [[Berkman Center for Internet and Society]], and is "open to very difficult, high-conflict people, even misogynists".<ref name=NYT31January2011>{{cite news | last = Cohen | first = Noam | title = Define gender gap? Look up Wikipedia's contributor list | url = http://www.nytimes.com/2011/01/31/business/media/31link.html | work = [[The New York Times]] | date = 31 January 2011 }}</ref> Estimates of Wikipedians who are female have ranged from 8.5 in 2011 to 16.1 percent in 2013.<ref>{{cite book | last = Wikimedia Foundation| author-link = Wikimedia Foundation | title = Wikipedia Editors' Survey | url = https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/76/Editor_Survey_Report_-_April_2011.pdf | format = pdf | publisher = [[Wikimedia Foundation]] | date = April 2011 }}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal | last1 = Hill | first1 = Benjamin Mako | last2 = Shaw | first2 = Aaron | title = The Wikipedia gender gap revisited: characterizing survey response bias with propensity score estimation | journal = [[PLOS ONE|PLoS ONE]] | volume = 8 | issue = 6 | page = e65782 | publisher = [[PLOS|Public Library of Science]] | doi = 10.1371/journal.pone.0065782 | date = June 2013 | url = http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0065782| postscript -access= .free}} p.&nbsp;2.<p></ref>

Issues that discourage women from editing include a perception of Wikipedia as sexist; a lack of confidence and spare time; problems with the editing interface; the belief that editing is tedious; unease because of the inclusion of pornography; and fewer opportunities to develop social relationships than on other websites.<ref name=Stoeffel/><ref name=Gardner19February2011>{{cite web | last = Gardner | first =Sue | author-link = Sue Gardner | title = Nine reasons women don't edit Wikipedia (in their own words) | url = http://suegardner.org/2011/02/19/nine-reasons-why-women-dont-edit-wikipedia-in-their-own-words/ | website = suegardner.org | date = 19 February 2011 }}</ref><ref>{{cite news | last = Staff writer | title = Wikipedia 'completely failed' to fix gender imbalance | url = http://www.bbc.com/news/business-28701772 | work = [[BBC News]] | publisher = [[BBC]] | date = 8 August 2014 }}</ref> Despite significant evidence to the contrary, certain commentators have denied that the gender gap is a problem, citing efforts to highlight it as "feminist ideology."<ref>{{Cite journal | last1 = Eckert | first1 = Stine | last2 = Steiner | first2 = Linda | author-link2 = Linda Steiner | title = (Re)triggering backlash: responses to news about Wikipedia’s gender gap | journal = [[Journal of Communication Inquiry]] | volume = 37 | issue = 4 | pages = 284-303 | publisher = [[Sage Publications|Sage]] | doi = 10.1177/0196859913505618 | date = October 2013 | url = http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0196859913505618| postscript = .}}</ref>

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