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Article Evaluation
I chose to evaluate the article about Genderism, because it's a topic we discussed in my trans rhetoric course that I think is interesting and also relates to the course content in WGS. The article, while only 4 paragraphs long, was fairly biased against genderism. I do think that genderism is generally regarded as wrong/ignorant, but the article definitely only provided one side: that it was transphobic and discriminatory towards the LGBT community.

All of the links worked and directed to books/publications rather than websites, which seemed trustworthy.

The talk page was interesting, especially because the page itself is flagged with a note, saying, "It has been suggested that this article be merged into Discrimination towards non-binary gender persons." Reading the talk page, people were very up-in-arms and it was interesting to see the arguments for merging pages, combining topics, and so on. Many people also disputed the use of genderism as a term entirely.

Sexism in Academia Brainstorms
Subsection: Women of Color in Academia

Women of color face specific issues related to sexism in academia as well. One such problem is referred to as the "Chilly Climate" problem, wherein, because women of color are infrequent in academia, they are often isolated and face a lack of institutional support. (source: http://www.jstor.org/stable/29789534) Additionally, because WOC's bodies are both viewed racially and in terms of their gender in academia, their voices and identities are often overlooked through "elite racism," as coined by Allen, Epps, Guillory, Suh, and Bonous-Hammarth (2000). (same source) Because WOC in academia are sometimes minorities in regards to their colleagues as well as their students, it is suggested that they feel the aforementioned isolation, racism, and sexism from both groups.

According to the National Science Foundation's 2015 survey of Doctorate recipients, only 40.41% of U.S. doctorate scientists employed in teaching positions were women, 61,750 out of a sample of 152,800. (source: https://www.nsf.gov/statistics/srvydoctoratework/) Of the female population, 75.95% were White, 11.01% were Asian, 5.34% were Hispanic or Latino, 5.67% were Black or African American, 0.32% were American Indian or Alaskan Native, and 1.62% constituted other races, including Native Hawaiian, Pacific Islander, and those who marked multiple races who were not Hispanic or Latino.