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> There isn't a wikipedia article about jacquard as a fabric, which is a bit odd.

You got me curious, here are the lengths of the Wikipedia articles for the top three words:

Women know better

  - peplum: 886 words (disambiguation is the default)

  - boucle: 187 words

  - rouche: 196 words (disambiguation is the default and leads you to "Gather (knitting)")

Men know better

  - shemale: 1257 words

  - howitzer: 2211 words

  - parsec: 2505 words



Is this the reflection of some sort of gender bias in Wikipedia contributors and editors?

Wikipedia's own article on it states:

> In a 2018 survey covering 12 language versions of Wikipedia and some other Wikimedia Foundation projects, 90% of contributors reported their gender as male, 8.8% as female, and 1% as other.[1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gender_bias_on_Wikipedia



Curiously, peplum, boucle, and rouche were exactly the ones I didn't recognize. (Well, and whipstitch.)




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