Thanks Kerry! I have been working on lists of painters per museum collection in order to show how few women artists are represented in major collections. With all of the work we do for GLAMS, it is interesting to note that they themselves are highly successful at perpetuating systemic bias.
Magnus is able to collect data on all the museums on the BBC's "Your Paintings" website, and with his data I just created a list of painters of the National Gallery, London. I was surprised to see that there is not even one female artist from Britain represented (though the British men are also underepresented, with only 18 out of 750 names). Lists like these can help generate demographic data for all sorts of diversity issues, as the amount of art in the museum is overwhelmingly Italian, Dutch/Netherlandish, and French, without any art at all from areas outside Europe.
The list is here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catalog_of_paintings_in_the_National_Gallery,_...
2014-02-21 8:32 GMT+01:00, David Monniaux David.Monniaux@free.fr:
And, indeed, I see your point. For historical/older information, it is indeed difficult to write about women's sports because these topics were not widely covered on paper (newspapers, books) but for current teams, at least for factual information, there is a large quantity of information online.
Indeed, if one is interested in France's national soccer team, one can probably get considerably more information online than through conventional media (which, at least in France, covers female sports very little, except in special events such as the Olympics).
Things are different with e.g. writers, since discussion on them tends to come from academics and "literary-type" newspapers. There is no equivalent to having factual databases of team rosters.
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