User:Alexjacullo/Choose an Article

Article Selection
Please list articles that you're considering for your Wikipedia assignment below. Begin to critique these articles and find relevant sources.

Option 1

 * Article title
 * Portrayal of women scientists in film


 * Article Evaluation
 * Content is relevant to topic but there are notes regarding lack of neutral tone or perspective as well as dependence on small number of sources. Most of the sources look reliable but a few are somewhat questionable. Definitely addresses an important equity gap. Could benefit from expansion of scope relevant to the topic and diversification of reliable sources.


 * Sources
 * https://www.sfu.ca/wwest/projects/Media-depictions-women-in-STEM.html https://seejane.org/wp-content/uploads/portray-her-full-report.pdf
 * https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-018-07512-9
 * https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2017.00716/full
 * http://genderandset.open.ac.uk/index.php/genderandset/article/view/514

Option 2

 * Article title
 * Organization for Women in Science for the Developing World


 * Article Evaluation
 * Topic is relevant to addressing an equity gap and the content of the article is relevant to the topic as a whole. Looks like there might be some citation and source issues such as a lack of citations when necessary and a predominance of original research or primary sources. The main sources the article cites from are those associated with the organization itself.


 * Sources
 * https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s40888-020-00173-w
 * https://www.interacademies.org/organization/organization-women-science-developing-world-owsd
 * https://www.devex.com/organizations/organization-for-women-in-science-for-the-developing-world-owsd-27921

Option 3

 * Article title
 * STEM pipeline


 * Article Evaluation
 * Looks like there are a lot of reliable and varied sources and information is properly cited as required. The content of the article is pertinent to the topic, and though it's not necessarily explicit, I think this topic could incorporate more relevant information that meets the criteria of targeting an equity gap. For example, adding information regarding women, BIPOC, LGBTQ+ representation in the STEM pipeline would be beneficial.


 * Sources
 * https://phys.org/news/2014-06-stem-pipeline-problems-aid-diversity.html
 * https://voices.uchicago.edu/bsddiversity/about/pipelinedatabase/
 * https://www.cell.com/cell/pdf/S0092-8674(20)31226-5.pdf

Option 4

 * Article title
 * Sexism in academia


 * Article Evaluation
 * Article topic definitely addresses an equity gap of women in academia and could benefit from further inclusion of international perspectives to add to reducing that equity gap. The information included currently is relevant to the topic as a whole. Substantial amount of cited references that seem to be reliable and varied with the correct citation parameters abided by.


 * Sources
 * https://theconversation.com/men-get-most-of-the-research-funding-its-a-serious-problem-for-women-and-science-85469
 * https://www.nature.com/articles/387341a0.pdf
 * https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/09540253.2014.970977

Option 5

 * Article title
 * Female education in STEM


 * Article Evaluation
 * Focuses very clearly on a significant and ubiquitous equity gap. References include a number of different sources but it's somewhat misleading because it seems like most of the article pulls from the first source more than anything else, so that could definitely be improved. Citations are missing from some places throughout the article. Content seems relevant to the topic but somewhat lacking in scope.


 * Sources
 * https://www.edutopia.org/article/keeping-girls-stem-3-barriers-3-solutions
 * https://www.aauw.org/resources/research/the-stem-gap/
 * https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/feduc.2019.00060/full