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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 Venezuela
 * Article Evaluation

Based on the talk page for this article, there is little information on politics and Venezuelan women's role in their country's government & politics. The person interested in adding a section about politics wants to do so by talking about Venezuelan women's role in the country's revolution, as well as current female representation in general political institutions. I am cautious about this particular division within the politics section, as I would refrain from there being some sort of correlational deduction from post-revolutionary feminism to the current state of women's political affairs. As another commenter posted, the article also has a lot of opinion stated as fact, without mention of who holds the opinion, who does not, where did the. opinion originate, etc.


 * Sources
 * Fleischman, J. (2019). CASE STUDY #5: Venezuela. In How Can We Better Reach Women and Girls in Crises? (pp. 20–21). Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS). http://www.jstor.org/stable/resrep23959.18 Reif, L. L. (1986). Women in Latin American Guerrilla Movements: A Comparative Perspective. Comparative Politics, 18(2), 147–169. https://doi.org/10.2307/421841

Option 2

 * Article title
 * Tokenism


 * Article Evaluation
 * For the most part, the citations follow Wikipedia's guidelines for reliable sources; the issue comes in making sure that citations are added when necessary to avoid adding erroneous information or opinion. My contribution would be to add more citations in areas marked as “citation needed." In the talk page, several editors also suggested adding more nuance (with reliable sources) about the different sides and perspectives about tokenism. There is also a section called Tokenism in Law Enforcement that I would be interested in adding to, which would also help the Wikiproject on human rights violations that tokenism is under. Adding a section such as Tokenism in Government would be an interesting addition, as well.


 * Sources
 * Kanter, R. M. (1977). Some Effects of Proportions on Group Life: Skewed Sex Ratios and Responses to Token Women. American Journal of Sociology, 82(5), 965–990. http://www.jstor.org/stable/2777808
 * Yoder, J. D. (1994). Looking Beyond Numbers: The Effects of Gender Status, Job Prestige, and Occupational Gender-Typing on Tokenism Processes. Social Psychology Quarterly, 57(2), 150–159. https://doi.org/10.2307/2786708
 * Schaefer, A. G., Wenger, J. W., Kavanagh, J., Wong, J. P., Oak, G. S., Trail, T. E., & Nichols, T. (2015). Insights on Critical Mass. In Implications of Integrating Women into the Marine Corps Infantry (pp. 31–42). RAND Corporation. http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.7249/j.ctt19gfk6m.12

Option 3

 * Article title
 * Climate change and gender


 * Article Evaluation
 * The article was written as an assignment for a class a decade ago, thus exposing room for more recent updates and sourcing if made available. An editor in the talk section mentioned that "The writing and selection of sources creates a bias throughout the whole article, and seems to be attempting to blame men for climate change without taking into account the action of women, and does not adequately cover the negative effects men face compared to women." Though the issue may already be resolved, this pattern is one to be mindful and wary of when speaking about effects of a greater societal system. In the same vein, because this article is about climate change *and gender* rather than *women*, any binary-speak should be avoided and all genders should be actively included, as well as the struggles/ challenges faced to people outside of the gender binary. I would like to evaluate more the difference between this article and that of Women in climate change.


 * Sources
 * Mai, N. H., Jok, J. M., & Tiitmamer, N. (2018). Climate Change and Gender in South Sudan. Sudd Institute. http://www.jstor.org/stable/resrep20115
 * CIFOR, & CGIAR. (2015). Gender and climate change: Evidence and experience. Center for International Forestry Research. http://www.jstor.org/stable/resrep01985
 * Terry, G. (2009). No climate justice without gender justice: an overview of the issues. Gender and Development, 17(1), 5–18. http://www.jstor.org/stable/27809203

Option 4

 * Article title
 * Women in government


 * Article Evaluation
 * As seen in Dr. O'Brien's comment in the talk page, there seems to be some smaller subsections within this article that might warrant the creation of a completely separate article. One example she notes is that of woman quotas in candidacy throughout different countries. I would be interested in the creation of this article because there are different sections that could come of that greater topic: history of woman quotas in government, history of quotas (some type of subtopic relating to the wikipage of Tokenism), challenges of creating quotas, etc. There is currently a NPOV on this subject which might further show for the need of a separate article page.


 * Sources
 * Ulbig, S. G. (2007). Gendering Municipal Government: Female Descriptive Representation and Feelings of Political Trust. Social Science Quarterly, 88(5), 1106–1123. http://www.jstor.org/stable/42956235 Ahn, S., Kim, J., & Kang, W. (2019). Low Female Political Representation in the US: An Institution-Based Explanation. Journal of International and Area Studies, 26(1), 65–88. https://www.jstor.org/stable/26909953
 * HUGHES, M. M. (2011). Intersectionality, Quotas, and Minority Women’s Political Representation Worldwide. The American Political Science Review, 105(3), 604–620. http://www.jstor.org/stable/41480860

Option 5

 * Article title
 * Socioeconomic impact of female education


 * Article Evaluation
 * It seems that this article was also a product of a class assignment, in which the TA also seems to have warned the author about the potential false causality between female education and development. Though the hope is that the page has enough valid information for a sensible reader to be able to reach this conclusion, we must add a section, or even make this whole article a layout of the larger debate on "the girl effect."


 * Sources
 * Boyd, G. G.-D. (2016). The Girl Effect: A Neoliberal Instrumentalization of Gender Equality. Consilience, 15, 146–180. http://www.jstor.org/stable/26188763
 * Moeller, K. (2014). Searching for Adolescent Girls in Brazil: The Transnational Politics of Poverty in “The Girl Effect.” Feminist Studies, 40(3), 575–601. https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.15767/feministstudies.40.3.575