User:Khushipdesai/Evaluate an Article

Which article are you evaluating?
Article: Gender inequality in India

Why you have chosen this article to evaluate?
I chose this article because it covers a breadth of topics related to gender inequality, highlighting the domestic lives, employment, social norms, and even violence and crime for women in India. It extracts studies and data points to gather relationships between gender and different aspects of Indian culture and life. This article relates to my research paper because my paper focuses on analyzing the socioeconomic lives of women in rural India.

Lead Section
The lead section includes a decent introductory sentence that describes the content of the article, contains information regarding the article using sources contained in the reference, and the lead is concise in it's description of the topic of the article. However, after reading through the lead, it seems like the article does not actually explain or break down the contents of the article very well and is a little too vague.

Content
The article's content is relevant to the topic and contains a decent amount of breadth considering that gender inequality is a broad subject that can span many different specific sectors of women's lives. The article goes over topics including economic and occupational inequality, domestic childhood and adulthood life of women, educational opportunities, violence, etc.

There does not seem to be missing content; however, as this is a broad topic that can include many facets of women's lives in India, there is definitely room for more improvement and additional information, specifically contrasting the lives of rural and urban women and how gender inequality has evolved over time.

Since the article highlights gender inequality in India, it does cover and inform about the lives of underrepresented women in India.

Tone and Balance
The article emphasizes the topic of gender inequality by highlighting different areas in Indian society, where women have less opportunities and more struggles compared to men. However, it manages to stay close to the facts and statistics in order to stay neutral. Even though the article correctly presents and interprets statistics and data that it refers to, the article clearly still attempts to persuade the reader towards a certain viewpoint, for example through this statement, "Women have equal rights under the law to own property and receive equal inheritance rights, but in practice, women are at a disadvantage," we can see that the author is attempting to convince the readers of the main argument of the page. However, overall, the article does not inaccurately reflect any perspectives and arguments and relies more heavily on its sources to back up claims.

Sources and References
The content of the article was backed up using credible sources in the reference section. The sources seem to reflect the content of the article and are able to cover the breadth of the topic through the diversity of sources. However, after review, it seems like the sources are not necessarily diverse in terms of authors and perspectives. Additional sources could include more Indian authors or sources from Indian news that could provide more diversity to the claims in the article.

Organization and writing quality
The article seems thorough and does not have any grammatical errors. Additionally the article seems to be well organized based on different topics, specific to different factors of gender inequality.

Images and Media
Some images are able to portray important information, for example, maps and statistics that display sex ratio based on location in the country. However, other images pose generic images that may not necessarily add to the context of the content of the article, and additionally they are not necessarily laid out in a captivating way. Regardless, all images seem to be well-captioned and adhere to all the Wikipedia rules.

Talk page discussion
The article discussions contain many indications of content that is not neutral in terms of the tone of the article. Additionally, some talk discussions involved questioning the validity and the statistics that certain claims relied upon.

Overall impressions
The overall status of the article is that is seems to work well with the facts and statistics and facts, but overall, the article can be improved through more credible sources and additionally checking the neutrality of the tone of the article. The article, according to me, is still quite underdeveloped considering the breadth of the topic and how many factors contribute to gender inequality in India.