User:Mariahgonzalez/sandbox

== Article Evaluation

Article Evaluation of the "Social Construction of Gender": Even though the article was trying to lay things out categorically according to different sub-groups of the social construction of gender, it read in a way that felt unorganized and hard to follow. For the most part, the material in the article seemed relevant with a few questionable bits of information put in throughout the page. As it was approaching the end of the article things started to stand out to me that seemed less relevant,especially when it started talking about education-specifically the standardized testing results and where continues on talking about mathematics. That seemed to stray very far off topic and was not relevant. I was struggling to see the significance of the section about speech. I didn't get the impression of heavy bias- but some of the wording should probably be changed to be more neutral rather than a personal preference. It is also clearly stated at the very beginning of the article that the page has been nominated to be checked for it's neutrality. As far as citations went, there were numerous paragraphs that didn't have citations where they were needed or information that was marked as disputed or inaccurate and gave the impression it was an opinion without any facts to back up the information. There was the majority of paragraphs that seemed to have the appropriate citations/references inserted with the information of the author, the title, and the ISBN. Of the links that I did check, they seemed to work to direct to the book or resource used. On the talk page it seemed that people had a few issues with the article and mentioned a few of the things that I have also brought up. It is an article that is a part of wikiprojects under feminism, gender studies, and LGBT studies. Overall, the article had some decent and accurate information, but it needs more editing and work done on it.

I chose the "Lookism" article. I would like to work on, or try to improve the content by making it more global-rather than just centered around the United States point of view of lookism. I would also like to talk more about the discrimination aspect and how this impacts people of different races/ social groups/ etc.

LOOKISM ARTICLES:

http://library.mises.org/sites/default/files/19_2_2.pdf

https://ac-els-cdn-com.libproxy.boisestate.edu/S0277539513000939/1-s2.0-S0277539513000939-main.pdf?_tid=fb46d4b8-0a91-11e8-bfb3-00000aacb362&acdnat=1517848454_abe08411f2508c3cbd829c98ef9abef4

https://ac-els-cdn-com.libproxy.boisestate.edu/S0277539513000939/1-s2.0-S0277539513000939-main.pdf?_tid=fb46d4b8-0a91-11e8-bfb3-00000aacb362&acdnat=1517848454_abe08411f2508c3cbd829c98ef9abef4

The changes I would like to make on the Wikipedia Page for "Lookism" revolve primarily around the world issue of it. The page is primarily focused on North America/ Canada and I want to incorporate some information from a few of the articles that I read. One of the articles I want to use is titled "The Aphrodite Affect" and it is a study conducted by two Romanian Professors/Researches that focused their work in Romania and also incorporated data from other countries like Taiwan and the affects of Lookism. I also wanted to use information from a research article that focuses on lookism and the effect it has on the public relations sector of Indonesia. It is very much a world-wide problem that has negative effects that doesn't get talked about in the article. I also wanted to try to edit the sub-heading titled "Law" there is not a lot of information there but I read an article written by a woman that proposes reasons why it can be put into law and why it definitely needs to be included in anti-discrimination laws.

International

Lookism is a form of discrimination that occurs internationally. Researchers have shown that discrimination based on appearance towards men and women in the workplace is common. Romanian researchers have created the term "Aphrodite effect" to explain the effect of attractiveness.