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= Kira Cochrane = Kira Cochrane (born in 1977) is a British journalist and novelist. She currently works as Head of Features at The Guardian, and worked previously as Head of Opinion. Cochrane is an advocate for women's rights, as well as an active participant in fourth wave feminist movements.

Early life and education
Kira Cochrane was born and raised in Loughton, Essex. Cochrane and her younger brother were raised by her mother in a single parent household. Her father died of a heart attack in 1979 at age 34; Cochrane was two years old. In 1983, when Cochrane was six years old, her elder brother was killed (age 8) in a traffic accident. She attended Christ's Hospital school, Horsham before studying American Literature at the University of Sussex and the University of California, Davis.

Career in journalism
Formerly a journalist at The Sunday Times, Cochrane fills the position as current Head of Features at The Guardian. She was the newspaper's women's editor from 2006 to November 2010, when she was succeeded by Jane Martinson. Cochrane wrote a column for the New Statesman magazine from 2006 to July 2008 and has written occasionally for other news sources such as the HuffPost.

The Guardian
Since beginning her career with the The Guardian in 2006, Cochrane continues to produce content covering women's empowerment and female leaders in progressivism. In a 2017 interview with The Heroine Collective, Cochrane expresses her passion for writing with The Guardian:"“I always felt it was my duty to run pieces about the more enjoyable sides of women’s lives, as well as the everyday sexism and horror,” she says. “To try and reflect the reality of our experiences.”"

Writing
Kira Cochrane has published four novels, Modern Women 52 Pioneers (2017), All The Rebel Women (2013), The Naked Season (2003), and Escape Routes for Beginners (2004), which appeared on the long list for the 2005 Orange Prize for Fiction. In 2009, Cochrane herself appeared on the judging panel for that year's Orange Prize for Fiction. She's co-edited (with Eleanor Mills) Cupcakes and Kalashnikovs: 100 Years of the Best Journalism by Women, published in the United States as Journalistas: 100 Years of the Best Writing and Reporting by Women Journalists. She has also edited an anthology of women's writing, which has appeared in The Guardian, Women of the Revolution: Forty Years of Feminism.

Modern Women: 52 Pioneers (2017)
Modern Women is a tribute to women who have paved the way for women's equality today. Cochrane immortalizes their legacies with visual and textual elements throughout. In the interview with The Heroine Collective, Kira explains her motivations for Modern Women:"“I wanted each woman to be someone who shifted the world’s sense of what might be possible for women.”"

All the Rebel Women (2013)
As a supporter of fourth wave feminist movements, Cochrane constructs All the Rebel Women as a tribute to those who are promoting change. In 2013, The Guardian posted an extract of the short novel and summarizes it as such:"'Kira Cochrane's ' All the Rebel Women' collects the voices making up a new fourth wave of feminism. In this exclusive extract, she looks at the role humour has to play in the movement.'"

Escape Routes for Beginners (2004)
In her second novel, Kira explores her narrative through the eyes of 13-year-old Rita Mae. Rita questions her parents toxic marriage and wishes to escape the prison-island she resides on. Throughout the novel, Rita uncovers secrets about her family's past. Escape Route for Beginners landed Cochrane as the youngest author nominated for the Orange Prize for Fiction, at 27 years old. Cosmopolitan calls it, "Inventive and deliciously dark."

The Naked Season (2003)
As an emerging author, Cochrane turned feminism into fiction in her first novel, The Naked Season. In an Amazon.com review and summary, they write:"'An outspoken, outrageous, original and outlandish debut novel from an outstanding new writer. Growing up isn't easy when your mother is a figurehead for feminism and the most famous lesbian in the world. All her life, Molly Flynn has been intrigued, entertained, alarmed and exasperated by her mother Augusta's increasingly bizarre claims about who she is and where she came from. Now, as Molly sets off down America's West Coast to confront her estranged husband and serve him divorce papers, she looks back on her strange and unconventional childhood in a series of entertaining flashbacks. But Molly will be waylaid on her journey from Seattle to California, and sidetracked - with dramatic, surprising, hilarious and unexpected results.'"

Fourth Wave Feminism
Cochrane's All the Rebel Women is solely based on the rise of fourth-wave feminism: the current era of feminism that is heightened by the use of social media and strives for intersectionality in society. The fourth wave focuses on supporting movements such as body positivity and sex-positivity, as well as protecting the rights of the LGBTQ community. Cochrane began her research and reporting of the fourth wave in 2013, upon collecting information for All the Rebel Women. In 2013, Cochrane wrote an article for the Guardian, titled "The fourth wave of feminism: meet the rebel women." Cochrane says:"'Welcome to the fourth wave of feminism. What's happening now feels like something new again. It's defined by technology: tools that are allowing women to build a strong, popular, reactive movement online. Just how popular is sometimes slightly startling.'""'As 2013 unfolded, it became impossible to ignore the rumble of feminist campaigners, up and down the country.'""'But bald attempts to silence women only made the movement larger and louder. They convinced those who had never thought about misogyny before that it was clearly still alive, and convinced those who were well aware of it to keep going.'"-

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Kira Cochrane Revision
I will be editing the Kira Cochrane wikipedia page. I've already began working on adding needed citations, as well as making general updates to the page.

I would ideally like to add a section on her activist work, since this is the main reason why people may recognize her name. I'd also like to pay closer attention to her published work in a more drawn out fashion. I'll be using some of her work as primary sources.

The talk page has only been concerned with grammatical mistakes and external link revisions. There hasn't been any talk about any drastic alterations.

Evaluation and Analysis (Week 9)
This article is scarce on information. It lacks several accomplishments and recent work that Kira has produced. I'd like to begin by adding the following:
 * 1) A further-developed, yet concise introductory graph.
 * 2) A section on her work solely with The Guardian.
 * 3) A section on her community outreach and efforts in feminist progression.
 * 4) An extension on her writing section; including detailed background on each of her published works.
 * 5) An updated image.

I have so far added a few missing citations and have copy edited what already stands. This article is currently a stub which I'd like to fix by the end of my revisions and development. The last update made was in 2017, which modified external links. In 2011, there was a proposition to delete the page due to lack of development, but was revoked since the page was just first being built. It seems as if this page has been forgotten about which I aim to fix.

Article Evaluation
The article on gender pay gap is tight-knit and organized. The information is mostly relevant, yet the statistics could be updated to more recent studies. The earliest available evidence on the page takes place in 2015, which now makes the information three years old. With the recent influx in the push for gender equality, these numbers most likely have changed. The tone is seemingly neutral and welcoming of different viewpoints. The author does not automatically dive into shaming those who are paid more than what is equal but uses factual evidence and statistics to prove their argument.

The author has organized the article by region and has separated how gender pay gap differs in other areas of the world. This method of organization is definitely overrepresented. This information could have been consolidated into one section that focuses on international discrimination and unequal pay. The article needs more representation on the bigger picture of the definition of gender pay gap and then apply that to the change in numbers throughout the years. There’s little information on the history of gender pay gap, as well as a lack of information on the recent efforts for this change; such as the women’s march and other movements. The section titled, “effects of pop culture,” could be developed so much further than just the few paragraphs it stands at.

There are definitely some missing citations for some statistics, specifically in the United States section. Some citations, when clicked, misdirect the reader to the website page where the source is found, not the actual source. There are a wide variety of sources that are used and are credible, and the information accompanied is related. Most sources are databases, research center sites, official government sites and/or neutral publications. The article does not have any quality or importance ratings, yet is being used for WikiProjects in economics, gender studies, sociology, history and feminism.

In the talk section, there is a lot of dispute based on adding and removing sections to the page. Since this is a very politically and socially charged topic, many people seem to be expressing their opinions by what they would like to remove or add to the page. For example, there has been a long-winded discussion about adding a “criticism” section to allow for further discussion on the topic. Many are disputing this addition since it authorizes a subjective voice as argument, which creates bias. An entire section called, effects of socialization on gender pay gaps,” was removed due to lack of statistical information and an apparent point of view assertion.