Expanding the World Gender-Name Dictionary: WGND 2.0

Gema Lax Martinez, Helena Saenz de Juano-i-Ribes, Deyun Yin, Bruno Le Feuvre, Intan Hamdan-Livramento, Kaori Saito and Julio Raffo

No 64, WIPO Economic Research Working Papers from World Intellectual Property Organization - Economics and Statistics Division

Abstract: This paper revisits the first World Gender Name Dictionary (WGND 1.0), allowing to disambiguate the gender in data naming physical persons (Lax Martínez et al., 2016). We discuss its advantages and limitations and propose an expansion based on updated data and additional sources. By including more than 26 million records linking given names and 195 different countries and territories, the resulting WGND 2.0 substantially increases the international coverage of its processor. As a result, it is particularly designed to be applied to intellectual property unit-record data naming inventors, designers, individual applicants and other creators disclosed in these data.

Keywords: Gender gap; Gender innovation metrics; Gender-name dictionary (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: J16 O31 O32 O34 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2021-07
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