User:Anuhea702/Evaluate an Article

Which article are you evaluating?
Gender studies

Why you have chosen this article to evaluate?
It is playing a big role in politics in current times. It is also tied with feminism and queer studies. I thought it was exactly what the name implied. It is about studying different genders and how it interacts and intersects with society.

Evaluate the article
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After having a brief summary on what gender studies entails, the next part is a collection of different influences and ideas from different people who studied gender studies and had differing ideas of what it is. Each person had a bit where it explains what they believed gender studies is. More than half of the sources cited were created before 2015. Gender studies is ever evolving and what is widely accepted is changing so I think there needs to be more current papers in the citations. It is good that the people that they did mention in the wiki page also had hyperlinks to their own wiki pages which means the summary is taking ideologies and papers written by known and established experts in this field. There also seems to have a few unreliable or uncited sources throughout the summary.

Some portions/sections of the summary might have felt as if they were leaning towards a certain bias, but I think that is the nature of the topic too. It is a subject that intertwines with politics as mentioned so there is mention of the faults of some parties or countries and how they deal with their gender issues. It is noted that they did highlight how the governments around the world is handling gender in either positive, negative, or neutral light. They also added a criticism section that did show how others are criticizing gender studies. The summary did have some emphasis on the differences between women and men's studies.

On wikiprojects it is rated B class with two out of the three saying it is top-importance.