query: # number of depicted subjects by gender
  # uncomment the last part of line 7 to limit the query to human subjects,
  # and change ?depicted to DISTINCT ?depicted in line 5 to only count each subject once regardless of how many works depict them
  SELECT ?gender ?genderLabel ?count WITH {
    SELECT ?gender (COUNT(?depicted) AS ?count) WHERE {
      ?work wdt:P180 ?depicted.
      ?depicted # wdt:P31 wd:Q5;
                wdt:P21 ?gender.
    }
    GROUP BY ?gender
  } AS %results WHERE {
    INCLUDE %results.
    FILTER(!ISBLANK(?gender))
    SERVICE wikibase:label { bd:serviceParam wikibase:language "[AUTO_LANGUAGE],en". }
  }
  ORDER BY DESC(?count)
  # (note that this query doesn’t group any genders together automatically, but when using this data,
  # you should probably do so manually – e. g. include transgender <gender> in the numbers for <gender>, in accordance with their “subclass of” statements)