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Gender studies is an interdisciplinary academic field devoted to analysing gender identity and gendered representation. Gender studies originated in the field of women's studies, concerning women, feminism, gender, and politics. [1] [2] The field now overlaps with queer studies and men's studies.
Anthropology; Archaeology; Architecture; Art. Art criticism; Literary criticism; Film theory; Science fiction; Biology; Composition studies; Criminology. Pathways ...
Participants at the NWSA Conference 2016. Women's studies is an academic field that draws on feminist and interdisciplinary methods to place women's lives and experiences at the center of study, while examining social and cultural constructs of gender; systems of privilege and oppression; and the relationships between power and gender as they intersect with other identities and social ...
Reviewed by Bri and Tilman Bayer. A Nature paper titled "Online Images Amplify Gender Bias" [1] studies: "gender associations of 3,495 social categories (such as 'nurse' or 'banker') in more than one million images from Google, [English] Wikipedia and Internet Movie Database (IMDb), and in billions of words from these platforms"
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This project is for editors with knowledge or an interest in gender studies and who want to help improve articles about the topic. All that's required to join is an understanding of Wikipedia's core principles and an interest in improving and collaborating on articles within this project's scope.
Judd Antin, Raymond Yee, Coye Cheshire, Oded Nov, "Gender Differences in Wikipedia Editing", WikiSym’11, October 3-5, 2011, study funded by Research Fund at UC Berkeley. Perhaps the most significant finding is that male editors tend to make an edit followed by revisions to that edit, whereas women tend to make single, larger edits and less ...
The fact that the existing articles on gender gaps in Wikipedia editing are underdeveloped themselves is a reflection of this issue. A study in 2011 determined that 9% of Wikipedia editors self-identify as female, and 91% self-identify as male [3]. That same report says that the number of women contributors has been steadily rising year after year.