User:Sophdev630/Evaluate an Article

Which article are you evaluating?
Gender studies

Why you have chosen this article to evaluate?
I chose to evaluate this article because it covers a very influential and broad topic. My preliminary impressions of it were that it covered the basic information but made some broad and unclear references to different theorist's ideas.

Evaluate the article
The lead section gives a good overall introduction although it makes references to theorists who are not mentioned in the rest of the article. The article put a little too much weight on the importance of men's studies v.s. women's studies. Women being the group who have historically been oppressed by gender inequity and who have used gender studies as a discipline to focus on important issues for them which were overlooked by mainstream society, I think this imbalance in the article replicates the injustices the field of gender studies seeks to combat. There are a few sections, in relation to particular theorists specifically which are lacking citations. The article is well written, but the way it is broken up is a little confusing. The sub-sections seem to be randomly allocated to different topics which don't seem to be of parallel importance and scope to the topic. This makes the flow of the article a bit confusing. The article could benefit from some images which could provide visual context and interest. The talk page for this article seems to be productive for the part and focused on keeping the article consistent with Wikipedia's guidelines. Overall, I think the article does a decent job of encapsulating the topic but could use some reorganization and refocusing.