User:Tjepsen

Scope of this taskforce
This taskforce, part of WikiProject Women's History, aims to improve the availability and quality of articles on Wikipedia about women involved in technology. We seek to analyze not only how technology has impacted the lives of women, but also how women have shaped the technologies that have become a part of modern life. The following are explicitly included as within scope:


 * women as technical workers (examples: women as telegraph/telephone/railroad workers)
 * women in engineering (examples: women as civil engineers, computer programmers, mechanical engineers)
 * women's thoughts and reflections on technology in the fields of literature, history, and philosophy

This taskforce is not intended to address women's contributions to related fields such as science, healthcare, and politics.

Women of all nations are explicitly included in this taskforce's scope.

Overall goals/tasks to be done

 * Ensure that existing biographies of women in technology are included in WikiProject Women's History.
 * Where necessary, improve the quality of articles about women in technology
 * Create new articles about notable women in technology, if they do not already exist
 * Create general articles about technology that focus on women's involvement

Collaboration with other WikiProjects
We should look into collaborating with related wikiprojects/taskforces on this subject.


 * Women in Science taskforce
 * Women in Healthcare taskforce

General starting points

 * Category:Women in technology

Overview articles by country
Goals:

Countries:

Organizations
Goal:


 * Create/update entries on organizations related to women in technology

List of organizations:


 * Victorian Women's Post and Telegraph Association (Australia)
 * Dansk Kvindesamfund (Danish Women's Society)
 * Norsk Kvinnesaksforening (Norwegian Feminist Society)
 * Women's Engineering Society (United Kingdom)
 * Electrical Association for Women (United Kingdom)
 * Society of Women Engineers (United States)
 * Women's Trade Union League (United States)
 * Order of Railroad Telegraphers (U.S., Mexico, Canada)
 * Commercial Telegraphers' Union of America (United States)

Biographies
Goals:


 * Create categories for women by country
 * Bring article level for each woman up to at least "start" (not a stub).
 * create articles for notable women who don't yet have them.

Existing and suggested entries by country:

Australia

 * Dorothy Donaldson Buchanan
 * Florence Violet McKenzie (1892-1982), electrical engineer

Canada

 * Elsie MacGill

United Kingdom

 * Delia Derbyshire
 * Victoria Drummond
 * Pauline Gower
 * Sarah Guppy
 * Caroline Haslett
 * Amy Johnson
 * Marie Killick
 * Hertha Marks
 * Daphne Oram
 * Constance Tipper

United States

 * Nora Stanton Blatch Barney
 * Edith Clarke
 * Kate Gleason
 * Grace Raymond Hebard
 * Beulah Louise Henry
 * Beatrice Hicks
 * Grace Hopper
 * Harriet Morrison Irwin (1828-1897), 1st US woman to patent an architectural innovation
 * Harriet Williams Russell Strong
 * Bobbi Trout

Online sources
The following sources are sufficiently reliable to use as references, and may be of use:

Books etc
Add bibliographic references here, if you think they'll be useful to others.