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Article Selection
Please list articles that you're considering for your Wikipedia assignment below. Begin to critique these articles and find relevant sources.

Option 1

 * Article title: KuToo movement
 * The KuToo movement, although more niche, is a perfect example of how women who enter the public sphere are thrown impediments based on gender. The mandatory heel rule makes it more difficult to walk (and forces the woman to take up less space physically, and therefore psychologically), and brings physical injury over time. Ultimately, it's uncomfortable and unnecessary. I want to add to what is already in this article Article Evaluation, specifically the health concerns. Here, I would add other example on how physically impeding women is a long-standing patriarchal tradition of limiting women in the public sphere. I would also do more research on present efforts in the movement to update it.
 * Junxiao, Leng. "Painful Connections: The" Making" of the# KuToo Online Feminist Movement in Japan/苦痛なつながり: 日本における# KuToo オンラインフェミニスト運動の [形成]." US-Japan Women's Journal 60.1 (2021): 52-83.
 * https://english.kyodonews.net/news/2019/06/5809bb3752ad-feature-japans-kutoo-movement-giving-women-a-leg-up-in-the-workplace.html
 * Okura, Sae. "Representing women’s interests in Japan’s civil society." Societies 11.3 (2021): 91.
 * https://zenbird.media/how-japan-sees-kutoo-and-gender-expectations-now/Links to an external site.
 * https://zenbird.media/how-japan-sees-kutoo-and-gender-expectations-now/Links to an external site.

Option 2

 * Article title: Pink tax
 * The Pink tax is important when we think about resources. Given that money is power, the expectation to buy gendered necessities is to remove more power than there already is from the wage gap. Things that are simply colored pink, purple, or any ideal "girl color" cost more when they shouldn't. It's expensive to be a woman. And, when we look from the other side and how gendered products for men aren't taxed (like condoms!!!!), it's clear this is discrimination-driven and not due to "higher maintenance" which some assume is the cause. A shortcoming in this article is a lack of international data. What does the pink tax look like internationally? I would add more to this section and consider the pattern between all of them. What are the most common, and maybe unexpected goods, that have a pink tax? I also want to add more about the luxury tax, using the sources below.
 * Sources
 * https://cora.life/blogs/blood-milk/what-is-the-tampon-tax
 * https://exepose.com/2019/10/13/putting-a-price-on-periods/
 * https://www.chase.com/personal/investments/learning-and-insights/article/the-problematic-pink-tax
 * https://www.chase.com/personal/investments/learning-and-insights/article/the-problematic-pink-tax

Option 3

 * Article title: Prescriptive Beauty Norm (PBN)
 * This would be a new page creation. Although there pre-existing pages on the "pink tax" and the "tampon tax," there is not a page to explain the amount of resources women need or feel the need to buy win order to be "presentable" to the public sphere. There is time, money, knowledge on style and temporary fashion, etc that woman are asked to obtain when many can't afford it. I will focus on definitions, reflection of the self and judgment of others, the US versus international, the beauty double bind, and how it overall forces women to focus more space on themselves instead of their experiences, goals, and accomplishments. I will reference pages like "KuToo" and the "Pink Tax" to connect them all. This will be a deep dive into gendered expectation to look respectable in the work place and public realm overall.
 * Sources
 * https://gap.hks.harvard.edu/beauty-myth-prescriptive-beauty-norms-women-reflect-hierarchyenhancing-motivations-leading
 * https://www.forbes.com/sites/kimelsesser/2019/10/28/the-link-between-beauty-and-the-gender-gap/?sh=601e485b5545
 * https://socsci3.tau.ac.il/nurit-shnebel/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/RamatiZiberShnabelGlick_2019.pdf
 * https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/31414872/
 * https://www.researchgate.net/publication/335198892_The_beauty_myth_Prescriptive_beauty_norms_for_women_reflect_hierarchy-enhancing_motivations_leading_to_discriminatory_employment_practices
 * https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/31414872/
 * https://www.researchgate.net/publication/335198892_The_beauty_myth_Prescriptive_beauty_norms_for_women_reflect_hierarchy-enhancing_motivations_leading_to_discriminatory_employment_practices

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