Talk:Socioeconomic impact of female education

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Initial Contribution
Anyone with any thoughts on improving or modifying the article can feel free to contact me on my talk page. Bwl5 (talk) 11:24, 22 October 2013 (UTC)

Request for comment

 * Actually, I would like to solicit comments from others, via this request for comment (RFC). I have no argument with anything you've written, and it's thoroughly sourced, but it reads as an essay rather than as a reference article. I've been generally curious about whether others consider articles like this to be advocacy pieces that fall under the topic of WP:NOTFORUM or whether they amount to WP:SYNTH. As I said, I have no gripe about the content of your article, just whether Wikipedia is a proper venue for it. —Largo Plazo (talk) 11:48, 22 October 2013 (UTC)


 * Somewhat against my will I am somewhat wont to agree with —Largo Plazo. On it's face, Female education and development as a concept isn't well defined in a manner which would allow it to be notable as an encyclopaedic topic.  However, I could see this changing if it added content that might make it more relevant as a cultural reference.  This might be done by actually presenting references in the article to existing models of female education in countries around the world.  This should then only be presented as a reference and not individually commented upon.


 * The bulk of any Wikipedia article should provide reference, not read as an essay advocating a position. This article needs objective elements which can ground it as a proper source of information, which is ultimately what an encyclopaedic article is supposed to be.  As currently constructed this article is probably not proper for Wikipedia in my opinion. I do agree that it is very well written and well sourced.  It can still be salvaged, but the concept must be defined in objective terms.  unak   1978  11:53, 6 November 2013 (UTC)

Threaded discussion

 * This page would not look like an essay if the original thought were tied to sources. I recommend that every sentence in this article be followed by a citation. This is a great practice for researchers anyway, because it signals when someone is injecting their own thought and bias into what they write versus what content is actually from scholarly peer-reviewed sources. This article does seem to me to be WP:SYNTH but it is still okay. This is not ideal for Wikipedia but it is not so out of place that it ought to be removed just so long as it has the "essay" tag indicating the problem.  Blue Rasberry    (talk)   11:26, 30 October 2013 (UTC)

Article Move
Given that the article covered both economic and social development, it seemed appropriate to remove an extra modifier from the title and simply call it Female education and development. Bwl5 (talk) 07:03, 6 November 2013 (UTC)

SOCI 280 Peer Review Comments
The following comments are posted as part of a Peer Review assignment for the Rice University "Poverty, Justice, and Human Capabilities" course noted in the above banner.

Generally, I believe this article is a well thought-out commentary on a relevant social matter in human development. I find it perplexing that this article has been tagged as an essay, which Wikipedia terms articles that "Typically contain advice or opinions of one or more Wikipedia contributors." This article seems to contain neither advice nor opinions; it presents views from reputed sources that are appropriately referenced. Additionally, it does not consider only a one-sided point of view, but notes how women's education may not translate to gains in outcomes for development, and acknowledges the limitations of research in this field.

That being said, there are some recommendations I would make to improve this article. First, what other pages on Wikipedia currently link to this one? To generate increased contribution and dialogue on this topic, I would encourage further contributors to cross-link it to/from other relevant Wikipedia articles. Moreover, it may be worthwhile to give a brief overview as to why women's education is a topic of social concern. The article states that women's education lags behind that of men and considers the outcomes of gains in women's education, but I would welcome additional consideration of the causes for this inequality. It may also, time pending, be worthwhile to consider the regional variation in this topic; I would expect that the ways that this topic manifests in North America or Western Europe, for example, differ from Sub-Saharan Africa or Southeast Asia, and so on. On a last note, I would recommend the addition of any graphs or charts that may speak to the points that are presented in this Wikipedia article; such well-placed images might provide more quantitative clarification of the disparities in education by gender or the effect of women's education on human development.

Amolutrankar (talk) 02:29, 7 November 2013 (UTC)

Peer review for SOCI 280
The following is a peer review for SOCI 280 at Rice University:

As far as the breadth of this article goes, I would suggest adding more to the "Social benefits" section and maybe even adding subsections. You touch on a lot of important concepts (such as reproductive health, civic participation, and benefits within a family) but all of these could definitely be expanded upon. In addition, you might rename "Ineffectiveness" to "Obstacles to development", as that seems to be what you are describing. Well-cited overall - a few places could use a citation, and the article perhaps could use a few more, but not bad. NPOV has improved - there are only a few spots now where this article seems persuasive.

As far as readability goes:
 * when you can use fewer words to get the point across, do so - it's a bit wordy in places.
 * using simpler words is not necessarily bad - right now, some of your language seems unnecessarily complex.

There are other suggested copy-edits in the document I shared with you via email. Formatting looks good. No images, but I'm not sure if they are truly necessary. Overall, a few things could be fleshed out more, but this is pretty good, especially considering that you created the article from scratch. Ktpost68 (talk) 05:59, 7 November 2013 (UTC)

TA Comments
Hi Bwl5! Your article is an important contribution to Wikipedia and has lots of great information. However, it does basically assume that the link between female education and development exists and is significant enough to warrant an article. I think you need a first section detailing studies from multiple sources that establish the link between female education and human development, which could include a lot of the information you currently have in your introduction and in the Measurement section (side note: the introduction should be an overview of the information contained later in the article and should not have any citations of its own). You could also make the article more neutral by renaming "Economic benefits" as "Effects on economic development"; "Social benefits" as "Effects on social development"; and "Ineffectiveness" as "Limitations of impact" or something like that.

Best of luck with the article! Let me know if you have any questions! Nadhika99 (talk) 02:43, 23 November 2013 (UTC)

This article topic appears to have scope issues, as others have mentioned. My quickest fix would be renaming it "International development and female education" (for further clarity), but the main issue is that it is not expanding summary-style out from international development or female education, so it isn't clear what exactly needs to be discussed in this topic. Ideally, there should be a paragraph at one of those articles and then linked to here, if one wants to read more. I see significant overlap between this article and The Girl Effect. Ostensibly this topic would be the parent to TGE, but as it's written, I'm not sure how they're different in scope. czar ♔  13:50, 15 February 2014 (UTC)

Dr. Migheli's comment on this article
Dr. Migheli has reviewed this Wikipedia page, and provided us with the following comments to improve its quality:

"I'm not sure that "This individual monetary gain creates an increase in the overall economic productivity of a country". Rather, the increase in the women's education improves the productivity and, in turn, leads to an increase in wages. Rather than " women's education also increases the equitability of the distribution of wealth in a society", women's education reduces the ineqaulity in the income distribution."

We hope Wikipedians on this talk page can take advantage of these comments and improve the quality of the article accordingly.

We believe Dr. Migheli has expertise on the topic of this article, since he has published relevant scholarly research:


 * Reference : Lotito, Gianna & Migheli, Matteo & Ortona, Guido, 2011. "An experimental inquiry into the nature of relational goods," POLIS Working Papers 160, Institute of Public Policy and Public Choice - POLIS.

ExpertIdeasBot (talk) 16:13, 24 August 2016 (UTC)

Feedback on possible addition
I'm with a women, development, and economy women studies course and I'm looking to hopefully make an addition to this article. I was considering adding a few paragraphs under a section including specific examples of the effect of female education in India. I'm still in the process of fully formulating which examples to include, but is there any feedback I could get on whether this addition would be valuable or should be looked at in a different way? Thanks Kvanderveur (talk) 03:48, 16 November 2018 (UTC)

I've written a section I'm going to be posting and naming "Relationship between female education and socioeconomic factors in India." I've also reviewed this talk page and am going to make some changes that have been proposed, such as rewording some complex sentences and changing paragraph headings to be more consise. I will make note of all of my edits and I hope any of those who wish to critic my addition would feel free to do so and let me know what they think needs to change. Kvanderveur (talk) 03:43, 5 December 2018 (UTC)

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