Nilizadeh et al., "Twitter’s Glass Ceiling: The Effect of Perceived Gender on Online Visibility" (2016)

Shirin Nilizadeh, Anne Groggel, Peter Lista, Srijita Das, Yong-Yeol Ahn, Apu Kapadia, and Fabio Rojas, Proceedings of the Tenth International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media (2016)
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@inproceedings{nilizadeh2016glass,
    author = {Shirin Nilizadeh and Anne Groggel and Peter Lista and Srijita Das and Yong-Yeol Ahn and Apu Kapadia and Fabio Rojas},
    title = {Twitter's Glass Ceiling: The Effect of Perceived Gender on Online Visibility},
    booktitle = {Proceedings of the Tenth International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media},
    doi = {10.1609/icwsm.v10i1.14711},
    year = {2016},
}

Among more than 94,000 Twitter users, perceived Gender is associated with visibility differently across the distribution: an advantage for women at lower visibility reverses among the most visible users, a form of Inequality on Social media.