[18:09:37] <leila>	 isaacj: We had a question about the gender distribution in readership in different languages when I presented the slides on Friday. I'm passing it to you. From the plots, it looks like the gender distribution is closer to parity for the languages spoken in countries that were formely part of the Soviet Union or countries with Communism as an ideaology more present in them. Do you have thoughts on this?
[18:10:10] <leila>	 the plot for those who are following this conversation afterwards is https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/80/2019_Wikipedia_reader_gender_by_language.png (this is not the exact plot I presented but it includes the relevant infromation that the question was triggered by.)
[18:22:40] <isaacj>	 leila: interesting hypothesis. while i'm certain that one could identify plausible mechanisms for that relationship, I personally don't know how we would verify it (for instance, I wouldn't trust our sub-country-level data to compare different regions of Germany). this data from Pew doesn't necessarily point to any clear reasons either except it would seem a negative correlation between views of gender equality and actual gender 
[18:22:40] <isaacj>	 equality amongst Wikipedia readers: https://www.pewresearch.org/global/2019/10/14/gender-equality-2/
[18:26:59] <leila>	 isaacj: something to talk with Markus S. about in our Wednesday meeting, I think. (Seeing https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/on-small-business/wp/2017/04/24/a-shortage-of-women-in-technology-not-in-russia/ , I wonder if social scientists can help us understand what may be at play here more.) I add it to the agenda for Wednesday.
[18:34:10] <isaacj>	 sounds good