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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
 * Women in conservatism in the United States


 * Article Evaluation
 * This article has a greater length than other underdeveloped articles, but each subsection is brief, lacking in detail, and often struggles to use neutral language. Furthermore, much of the article is a list of women with varying connections to the conservative movement that adds little to a reader's understanding of the topic. This article could particularly benefit from an expansion of the history section, which would provide more information relating directly to the topic and could add more focus to the grassroots involvement of women in the conservative movement, which is presently underrepresented compared to its detail on female political elites. This topic merits a more extensive discussion of its history because it currently perpetuates the gap in coverage between female participation in liberal political activism and women's contribution to conservative causes.


 * Sources
 * Nickerson, Michelle M. Mothers of Conservatism: Women and the Postwar Right. Princeton Univ Press, 2014.
 * https://press.princeton.edu/books/paperback/9780691163918/mothers-of-conservatism
 * Rymph, Catherine E. 2006. Republican Women. Univ of North Carolina Press. https://uncpress.org/book/9780807856529/republican-women/
 * Rymph, Catherine E. 2006. Republican Women. Univ of North Carolina Press. https://uncpress.org/book/9780807856529/republican-women/

Option 2

 * Article title
 * Femicide in Mexico


 * Article Evaluation
 * This article, addressing an issue of increasing salience in Mexican politics, suffers from a lack of detail and a writing style in line with Wikipedia standards. The article could benefit from more structure throughout -- the lead section does not summarize the article very well, while the subheading titles are vague and many paragraphs contain sweeping statements and charged language that should be replaced with more concrete detail. In addition to restructuring the existing portions of the page, the article could benefit from a more extensive description of the history of femicide in Mexico, including an investigation of the causes of the surge since the 1990s, and information on the political response to this phenomenon, such as the stances of leaders like president Andrés Manuel López Obrador on the subject.


 * Sources
 * Sandin, Linnea. 2020. “Femicides in Mexico: Impunity and Protests.” Csis.org. March 19, 2020. https://www.csis.org/analysis/femicides-mexico-impunity-and-protests . ‌Mcginnis, Teagan, Octavio Ferreira, and David Shirk. 2022. “Analyzing the Problem of Femicide in Mexico the Role of Special Prosecutors in Combatting Violence against Women.” https://www.wilsoncenter.org/sites/default/files/media/uploads/documents/220710_FEMICIDE_WKPP_Final.pdf.

Option 3

 * Article title
 * Women's political participation in India


 * Article Evaluation
 * This article already has a solid base of information on women's participation in Indian politics across a number of angles -- electoral participation, representation in political office, activism, candidate recruitment, etc. -- and provides a helpful level of background information on the Indian political system to contextualize the topic. The article could benefit from an expansion on the section about barriers to women's participation in politics, which is currently given a useful but brief summary, as well as the gender gap in political preferences in India, which is only briefly mentioned. Information on these two subtopics would help readers of the article gain a deeper understanding of this topic, which is particularly important in the world's largest democracy.


 * Sources
 * RAI, PRAVEEN. “Electoral Participation of Women in India: Key Determinants and Barriers.” Economic and Political Weekly 46, no. 3 (2011): 47–55. http://www.jstor.org/stable/27918039.
 * Chary, Maroju Rama. “WOMEN AND POLITICAL PARTICIPATION IN INDIA: A Historical Perspective.” The Indian Journal of Political Science 73, no. 1 (2012): 119–32. http://www.jstor.org/stable/41856567.
 * Chary, Maroju Rama. “WOMEN AND POLITICAL PARTICIPATION IN INDIA: A Historical Perspective.” The Indian Journal of Political Science 73, no. 1 (2012): 119–32. http://www.jstor.org/stable/41856567.

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