Overall, we find that, contrary to previous research, coverage and sentiment biases suggest equal public interest in female politicians. We assess 5 different types of gender bias, evaluating coverage, combinatorial, nominal, sentimental and lexical biases extant in social media language and discourse.

Finally, we conduct a multi-faceted study of gender bias towards politicians investigating both linguistic and extra-linguistic cues. We address not only misogynistic language, but also other manifestations of bias, like benevolent sexism in the form of seemingly positive sentiment and dominance attributed to female politicians, or differences in descriptor attribution. To this end, we collect 10 million comments on Reddit in conversations about male and female politicians, which enables an exhaustive study of automatic gender bias detection. In this work, we present a comprehensive study of gender biases that appear in online political discussion. This is likely tied to implicit gender biases against women in authority. Despite attempts to increase gender parity in politics, global efforts have struggled to ensure equal female representation.

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