User:Scooby7829/Evaluate an Article

Which article are you evaluating?
Gender studies

Why you have chosen this article to evaluate?
I chose this study because gender identify has been a growing field in todays society. How each person wants to represent themselves and categorize themselves has been a topic and will always remain a heavily prevalent topic. Overall this was a great and informative article. It listed various sources, and didn't show any forms of bias to either gender, just provided extensive information that has been collected over the years to correlate male/female gender and gender roles.

Evaluate the article
The lead section also know as the first paragraph starts with a clear sentence to depict what this article is going to discuss which is gender identity and gender representation. It is not too detailed but detailed enough so you know what topics that the author is going to discuss throughout the article. All the sections that is list to correlate with the articles topic is listed throughout the article. The overall content is not bias by any means and does not shed light on one topic more than the other. The author thoroughly describes what is known to be gender and then has articles to back up what we as society know to be gender with what scientist and other fields describe gender as. The article does address the history of gender representation and how society has had a role in constructing what we set as a "gender". The entire article is addressed in a neutral tone, & doesn't try to persuade the reader to one specific side. The author doesn't address one gender more than the other. The author clearly states that studies that have been documented on women gender and gender roles and also men gender and gender roles that point to present day society thoughts of feminine and masculinity that is thought to be show in the separate genders. The author provides various sources, not many are scholarly sources so the reliability may be some what off, but there are many Wikipedia sources as well as various books, and articles from Universities who have done studies on this topic. The sources do all have various backgrounds and not specified to a certain race or gender. The links on the references do work and take you straight to the source the author cited with. Many of the sources are from 10 years or more ago so that could lead to some unreliability because more information has been studies and new findings may have been discovered. This article is well written, no grammatical errors were found by me and the topics were broken down and explain very clear with articles to support the particular topic. There is only one image in the article that is provided but it is in another language so the reader may be confused on what the image purpose is trying to proclaim. Looking at the talk pages some users feel as if bias was used in the article and related a source that was very argumentative so that would definitely be something to think of before using this article as a relevant source. This article has been rated as a Class C and level 5 and has been used as Wikiprojects. Overall, I felt it was a good article. It could definitely use updated information on all topics discussed and could use more improving on adding more detail to be more clear for the reader and address the talk pages concerns.