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   1. Re: Women's rights in 2015 (Neotarf)


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From: Neotarf <neotarf@gmail.com>
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That's a great idea. These retrospectives are always a lot of fun.  There
used to be a TV series that reviewed the news of the week--That Was The
Week That Was <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LS8ac4catVk>--a comedy
though, not serious.  They also serve as a catchup for any events that you
missed while traveling or whatever,  I had thought it was Smallbones who
suggested it, but didn't check. So thank you to Smallbones.

These would be a lot easier to write if people would keep track of possible
events to include throughout the year.  Then at the end of the year, you
would have all the sources and would just have to choose the most
significant events, or whatever criteria you were using.  Some of the links
I gave above are not so much events as trends.   I have also just thought
of Justin Trudeau's "Because it's 2015" statement.  Also some private
companies that stepped into the act and banned online harassment--Reddit
and Facebook took steps against online harassment after the iCloud hack,
Google and Bing took action over the summer, and Twitter, which had defined
itself as as a platform for speech, banned harassment against all
expectation. Then there are annual things like pay equity day
<http://www.pay-equity.org/day.html>, that could become an annual feature.
Sue Gardner's Twitter has some info about women leaving tech in the side
bar, that might be a good starting point for career trends.  There might
also be developments in women's health that people really should know
about--treatments that become outmoded, discoveries, etc. I would prefer to
call it just "Women in 2015", or something along those lines--sort of a
State of the Union report.

This doesn't really fit under the GGTF rubric, does it. Would it be
worthwhile to start a separate project?

On Thu, Dec 31, 2015 at 9:05 PM, SarahSV <sarahsv.wiki@gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi Neotarf,
>
> I saw that Smallbones suggested that article on WT:GGTF
> <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Countering_systemic_bias/Gender_gap_task_force#Women.27s_rights_in_2015>.
> It would be wonderful to create a series of "women's rights in ...", going
> back decades. Thank you for compiling those sources.
>
> Happy New Year, everyone!
>
> Sarah
>
> On Thu, Dec 31, 2015 at 6:51 PM, Keilana <keilanawiki@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Thanks for sending these along! Since my pet project is women scientists
>> I want to note some articles that these sources could be used for. And a
>> hearty congratulations to Maia for a lovely article from Scientific
>> American! I'm quite pleasantly surprised that half already had articles -
>> and yes, this is progress. I'm going to write [[Margaret Tisdale]] this
>> weekend, and y'all can hold me to it.
>>
>> * [[Kathryn Barnard]] is a redlink
>> * [[Aída Fernández Ríos]] is a redlink
>> * [[Anita Kurmann]] is a redlink
>> * [[Dottie Thomas]] is a redlink
>> * [[Margaret Tisdale]] is a redlink
>>
>> Happy new year everyone!
>>
>> -Emily
>>
>> On Thu, Dec 31, 2015 at 6:47 PM, Neotarf <neotarf@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> I notice someone suggested a followup to last year's Women's rights in
>>> 2014 article.  I was hoping someone would write one, mostly because I don't
>>> usually follow these issues, and I found the last one rather informative.
>>> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Women's_rights_in_2014
>>>
>>> The only gender-related events that stood out for me this year were the
>>> Saudi elections, with women both voting and running for office for the
>>> first time, and Gambia doing away with FGM.
>>>
>>> If anyone wants to take a stab at it, or just read up on it, here is
>>> start on sources. There are five women listed in the last link who do not
>>> yet have Wikipedia articles:  Kathryn Barnard, Aída Fernández Ríos, Anita
>>> Kurmann, Dottie Thomas, and Margaret Tisdale.  A couple of them have NYT
>>> obits, so some definite gaps in WP coverage there.
>>>
>>>    - Progress of the World’s Women 2015-2016: Transforming Economies,
>>>    Realizing Rights -Authors/editor(s): UN Women
>>>    http://www.unwomen.org/en/digital-library/publications/2015/4/progress-of-the-worlds-women-2015
>>>
>>>
>>>    - Top 2015 Women's Equality Moments
>>>    http://www.huffingtonpost.com/noreen-farrell/top-womens-equality-moments_b_8890178.html
>>>
>>>
>>>    - World Health Organization: Ten top issues for women's health
>>>    http://www.who.int/life-course/news/2015-intl-womens-day/en/
>>>
>>>
>>>    - Gone in 2015: Commemorating Ten Outstanding Women in Science
>>>    http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/voices/gone-in-2015-commemorating-ten-outstanding-women-in-science/
>>>
>>>
>>>
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