User:SHLovesScience/Evaluate an Article

Which article are you evaluating?
Women in climate change

Why you have chosen this article to evaluate?
I have always been interested in climate change and environmental injustice, and finding intersectional ways to relieve the stress of climate change. It's very important to recognize the women in the scientific community who are fighting against climate change despite large challenges and obstacles -- even more so than by just existing as a woman in the STEM community. This article, at first glance, contains a brief introduction of stats of women in the climate change workplace and common ways women are working against the phenomenon. The article then goes on to list a giant conglomeration of women in climate change-related research fields and policy work.

Evaluate the article
Lead section: The article does a good job of stating right off of the bat why this is an issue to care about and makes the statement that women are vital to the fight against climate change. It also cites three very important primary sources -- the UN, the Population Reference Bureau, and the WHO.

Content: I think the content in this article does a good job at addressing overall that women do not tend to be in the majority in most scientific spaces but does not address how that issue penetrates deeper than just gender. I think this article would be more well-rounded to have even more stats on specific race/ethnicity, disability status, Nationality, etc to really show that this is not only a male-dominated field but white as well. In addition, I think the author could have put more effort into including a section on famous works from women that catapulted or continue to catapult the climate change research/policy development. Listing a billion women is not the best use of space or time and I think citing specific works in a more concise manner would've kept the reader more interested and allowed them to follow up on work that they found interesting. A section on how to support women in STEM would be helpful too.

Tone/balance: I think the author crafted the article very professionally, and without sounding bitter or vengeful for the unequally in the climate change scene.

Sources: The sources are appropriate, updated, and helpful to the statements the author puts in the article. There are lots of statistics in this article and it's vitally important to include citations when presenting those facts, and that was done very well here.

Organization/writing quality: As stated before, I'm not sure a non-exhaustive but still extremely long list of women is the best thing to include in this article, but it serves the purpose of trying to get the reader more familiar with names of women in this field. The writing is professional and succinct.

Images/media: There was not a lot of images in this article, and I don't think that is necessarily a bad thing, although some graphs of the statistics the author was sharing could be helpful to visually prove the point that women are underrepresented.

Overall, I think this article was well-written and I appreciate the time and effort the author(s) put forth to craft an article honoring the many women who are fighting against one of the biggest threats of this century.

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