Wikipedia:Under-representation of science and women in Africa: Wikimania 2018 an opportunity to bridge the gap
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Under-representation of science and women in Africa: Wikimania 2018 an opportunity to bridge the gap
Africa’s contribution to science
editAfrica with about 16% of the world’s population contributes about 3%, in 2014, of global scientific publications [1].
Under representation of women in science
editGlobally women are under-represented in science; a 2013-2014 report [2] [3] states that 12% of sixty nine surveyed science academy members were women. Similarly, on Wikipedia the online encyclopaedia, there is under representation of women by way of their biographies, approximately 17% on the English language Wikipedia, as of October 2017 [4].
Wikimania 2018 an opportunity
editWikimania 2018, the yearly conference for the Wikimedia Foundation, the organisation which hosts Wikipedia, will be held for the first time in sub-Saharan Africa in Cape Town, South Africa [5]. In South Africa, Wikipedia is one of the top ten most visited websites (number six as of October 2017) [6].
It has been suggested that greater visibility of women in science can help ameliorate their under-representation [2]. Wikimania 2018 represents an opportunity to increase the visibility of women scientists in a continent also under-represented by way of scientific publications. More broadly this project aligns with the United Nations Sustainable Development goal of achieving gender equality by 2030[7].
Aim
edit• To write Wikipedia biographies of South African women scientists.
Action
edit• Wikipedia biographies will be written, based on Wikipedia notability criteria, using a contemporary list of members of the Academy of Science of South Africa.[8]
Dissemination plans
edit• Article in the South African Journal of Science • Wikimania 2018 presentation • Social media e.g. Twitter, Facebook
Notes
editAlthough by no means addressing the underlying cause(s) of gender under-representation [9] this effort will help to draw attention to and ameliorate the under-representation of women scientists. This effort is a first step with scope of expansion to cover more fields, countries and men scientists as well.
A dynamic list, in alphabetic order by surname, of Women members of the Academy of Science of South Africa
edit- Please kindly also mention in the created article membership of the Academy of Science of South Africa and add a citation to the members list (ref 8 below[8]) to avoid the article being speedily deleted.
The names are cited in this list from the Academy of Science of South Africa and new members, 2017, were added from this list
- Quarraisha Abdool Karim - previous: 27 September 2014
- Miriam Adhikari - new 17 October 2017
- Jill Adler - new 18 October 2017
- Lucinda Backwell - new 29 December 2017
- Priscilla Baker - new 22 January 2018
- Marion Bamford
- Ann Bernstein
- Judith Bishop (computer scientist)
- Sonja Bosch
- Liesbeth Botha
- Stephanie Burton
- Jane Carruthers
- Jennifer Case
- Rachel Chikwamba - new 9 March 2018
- Anusuya Chinsamy-Turan - previous: 25 December 2014
- Maureen Coetzee - new 26 October 2017
- Theresa Coetzer
- Jeanet Conradie
- Anna Coutsoudis - new 18 October 2017
- Cheryl de la Rey - previous: 1 April 2010
- Zodwa Dlamini - created 15 July 2018
- Zodwa Dlamini (biochemist) - created 15 July 2018
- Uma Dhupelia-Mesthrie
- Roseanne Diab - new 31 December 2017
- Tania Douglas
- Colleen Downs
- Kathleen Driver
- Jeanetta du Plessis
- Willemien du Plessis
- Liesel Ebersöhn
- Adrienne Edkins
- Irma Eloff
- Petra Engelbrecht
- Sabiha Essack
- Jill Farrant - previous: 31 May 2012
- Loretta Feris
- Rosalie Finlayson
- Sharon Fonn - new 30 December 2017
- Igle Gledhill
- Pumla Gobodo-Madikizela - previous: 16 November 2007
- Glenda Gray - previous: 21 August 2014
- Mellony Graven
- Diane Grayson (physicist)
- Minrie Greeff
- Carolyn Hamilton (historian) - previous: 5 March 2016
- Susan Thérèse Largier Harrison
- Shireen Hassim
- Diane Hildebrandt (chemist)
- Karen Hofman
- Isabel Hofmeyr (in KiSwahili)
- Jenny Hoobler
- Sarah Jane Howie
- Heidi Hudson
- Nicola Illing
- Hilary Janks
- Rifka Kfir
- Ayesha Kharsany
- Carolina Koornhof
- Renée C. Kraan-Korteweg - new 18 October 2017
- Anna Kramvis
- Salome Kruger
- Maryke Labuschagne
- Alison Lewis
- Antoinette Lombard - new 11 January 2018
- Catriona Macleod
- Nomathemba Virginia Magi
- Lenore Manderson - previous: 9 August 2013
- Delia Marshall
- Judith Masters
- Angela Mathee
- Veronica McKay
- Lirieka Meintjes-Van der Walt
- Valerie Mizrahi - previous: 18 November 2015
- Dhayendre Moodley - new 30 November 2017
- Penelope Moore
- Kathryn Myburgh
- Christina Mynhardt
- Shamila Nair
- Marie-Louise Newell
- Catherine Ngila - new 17 October 2017
- Stella Nkomo
- Sarah Nuttall
- Catherine Odora Hoppers
- Ruksana Osman - new 5 January 2018
- Claire Penn - previous: 10 April 2016
- Nancy Phaswana-Mafuya
- Deborah Posel
- Dorrit Posel
- Sharon Prince
- Gita Ramjee
- Mamphela Ramphele - previous: 13 November 2004
- Michèle Ramsay - new 25 October 2017
- Priscilla Reddy
- Helen Rees - previous: 15 February 2017
- Linda Marlene Richter
- Laetitia Rispel - new 15 October 2017
- Cornelia Roux
- Maria Schoeman
- Mary Catherine Scholes
- Aletta Schutte
- Soraya Seedat
- Sheona Shackleton
- Tamara Shefer
- Precious Sibanda
- Olive Shisana
- Ruth Simbao
- Ratnamala Singh
- Himla Soodyall - previous: 30 August 2009
- Daniela Cristina Stefan
- Nthoana Tau-Mzamane
- Jennifer Ann Thomson
- Caroline Tiemessen - new 26 October 2017
- Fiona Tregenna
- Annél van Aswegen
- Heidi van Rooyen
- Louise Viljoen
- Renuka Vithal
- Wilma Viviers
- Lyn Wadley - previous: 27 November 2014
- Cherryl Walker (sociologist)
- Melanie Walker (educationalist)
- Vanessa Watson
- Paula Watt
- Patricia Ann Whitelock - new 20 October 2017
- Anna-Lise Williamson - previous: 3 April 2015
- Carolyn Williamson - new 15 March 2022
- Brenda Wingfield - previous: 29 March 2017
- Marié Wissing - new 15 March 2022
- Rachel Wynberg - new 15 March 2022
- Taryn Young - new 4 January 2018
- Heather Zar - new 16 October 2017
Participants (please add your name below):
edit- Ear-phone (talk) 15:23, 16 October 2017 (UTC)
- Ipigott (talk) 15:53, 16 October 2017 (UTC)
- Discott (talk) 09:20, 17 October 2017 (UTC)
- Pharaoh of the Wizards (talk) 10:48, 17 October 2017 (UTC)
- Rosiestep (talk) 19:37, 30 December 2017 (UTC)
- Megalibrarygirl (talk) 20:20, 30 December 2017 (UTC)
- Netha (talk) 09:19, 5 January 2018 (UTC)
- Jackiekoerner (talk) 16:47, 5 July 2018 (UTC)
- Great11 (talk) 16:09, 8 July 2018 (UTC)
- Jess Wade (Jess Wade) 13:29, 15 July 2018 (UTC)
- Spinster300 (talk) 12:19, 15 March 2022 (UTC)
- Cattywampus23 (talk) 15:58, 21 May 2022 (UTC)
References
edit- ^ United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization. "UNESCO SCIENCE REPORT Towards 2030" (PDF). Retrieved 16 October 2017.
- ^ a b Gibney, Elizabeth. "Women under-represented in world's science academies". Nature. doi:10.1038/nature.2016.19465.
- ^ Ngila; Boshoff, Nelius; Henry, Frances; Diab, Roseanne; Malcom, Shirley; Thomson, Jennifer (2017). "Women's representation in national science academies: An unsettling narrative". South African Journal of Science. 113 (7/8). doi:10.17159/sajs.2017/20170050. ISSN 1996-7489.
- ^ Team, WHGI Dev. "Gender by Wikipedia Language | WHGI". whgi.wmflabs.org. Retrieved 2017-10-16.
- ^ "Wikimania - Wikimania". wikimania2018.wikimedia.org. Retrieved 2017-10-16.
- ^ "Top Sites in South Africa - Alexa". www.alexa.com. Retrieved 2017-10-16.
- ^ "Goal 5 targets". UNDP. Retrieved 2017-10-20.
- ^ a b "Members". www.assaf.org.za. Retrieved 2017-10-16.
- ^ Ford, Heather; Wajcman, Judy (2017-03-01). "'Anyone can edit', not everyone does: Wikipedia's infrastructure and the gender gap". Social Studies of Science. 47 (4): 511–527. doi:10.1177/0306312717692172.