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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
 * Vietnam Women's Union


 * Article Evaluation
 * As of writing, the article is B-class but has a completeness score of 53. While the current citations are drawn from either the VWU's website itself or scholarly work, I think the article can be improved in three ways. Firstly, the article needs to be updated as the information seems to stop at 2018 - the article lacks even the name of the newly appointed president. Secondly, the article needs to include more appraisals of the effectiveness of the VWU - whether at empowering women or at contributing to state goals. Thirdly, the article needs to be reorganized as the first five introductory paragraphs are not structured in an intuitive way. The VWU is important in understanding how gender works within the cultural context of Vietnam and the goals of the Vietnamese Communist Party; therefore, the article should be improved.


 * Sources
 * Rydström, H. (2016). Vietnam Women’s Union and the politics of representation: Hegemonic solidarity and a heterosexual family regime. In Gendered citizenship and the politics of representation (pp. 209-234). Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-51765-4_10
 * Lan Anh Hoang (2020). The Vietnam Women’s Union and the Contradictions of a Socialist Gender Regime. Asian Studies Review, 44(2), 297-314, doi:10.1080/10357823.2019.1699023

Option 2

 * Article title
 * Women in Japan


 * Article Evaluation
 * As of writing, the article is C-class with a completeness score of 86, and while the article does cover a broad range of topics with plenty of reliable citations, I think the article lacks depth in many places - namely the section on the political status of Japanese women. Currently, the section lacks up-to-date information on female political representation in Japan (as of writing, the data on female representation was from around 2013-2015). As one of the most developed democracies in the world, women's representation in Japanese politics is surprisingly low. Therefore, the article should cover explanations in the literature as to why this is the case.


 * Sources
 * Eto, M. (2010). Women and Representation in Japan. International Feminist Journal of Politics, 12(2), 177-201, DOI: 10.1080/14616741003665227 Kage, R., Rosenbluth, F., & Tanaka, S. (2019). What Explains Low Female Political Representation? Evidence from Survey Experiments in Japan. Politics & Gender, 15(2), 285-309. doi:10.1017/S1743923X18000223

Option 3

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 * HIV/AIDS in Vietnam


 * Article Evaluation
 * As of writing, the article is S-class with a completeness score of 46. While the article has plenty of data, the vast majority of the information seems to be pre-2010. Not only does the article need to be updated, it can also benefit from a gendered lens in discussing the impacts of HIV/AIDS on female sex workers and MSM (men who have sex with men). Considering that both of these groups are discriminated against in Vietnamese society, it is important to understand how HIV/AIDS disproportionately impacts them both as a public health issue and as a political issue.


 * Sources
 * Green, K. E., et al. (2018). From conventional to disruptive: upturning the HIV testing status quo among men who have sex with men in Vietnam. J Int AIDS Soc., 21(5). https://doi.org/10.1002/jia2.25127
 * Le, M., D'Onofrio, C. & Rogers, J. (2010). HIV Risk Behaviors Among Three Classes of Female Sex Workers in Vietnam. The Journal of Sex Research, 47(1), 38-48, doi:10.1080/00224490902999278

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