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Online event; 1–30 April 2022
	International Conference on Gender Studies in Africa, hosted by the School of Women & Gender Studies, Makerere University, Feb 2022

Gender studies | April 2022

April: Gender studies Translation contest Geofocus: French overseas territories

2022 global initiatives: #1day1woman2022 Climate

See also: Future events

Welcome!

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.	Authority control should be included at the foot of every biography: `{{Authority control}}`. It will remain hidden until relevant identifiers have been added to Wikidata. Choose applicable Categories including relevant subcategories of Category:Women. If applicable, add a stub template at the foot of an article:`{{stub}}`.

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.	`{{WikiProject Biography\| }}` or `{{WikiProject Biography}}` `{{WikiProject Women}}` if born after 1950; or `{{WikiProject Women's History}}` :: if born before 1950. Editathon banner: `{{WIR-226}}`

As in April every year, Women in Red is once again focusing on women in gender studies. This is a particularly important event for Women in Red as it is thanks to the activities of academics in the 1970s that universities began to include gender and ethnic studies in their curricula. As a result, we have become increasingly aware of the traditional misrepresentation of women's achievements and are now able to draw on on a wide range of pertinent resources. The pioneers involved may not qualify for biographies on academic grounds (many never became full professors) but they nevertheless achieved notability as activists and writers. Those of you who attended university could usefully examine the development of gender studies in your institution, identifying the women who played an important part in launching gender initiatives. If you do not have time to write about them yourself, please add them to our crowd-sourced list (or simply list them under Redlists below) with one or two good secondary sources.

In addition, as we are promoting interest in translation this month, the Wikidata list (following crowd-sourced names) includes many women active in gender studies who have articles in other languages. Why not include some of them among the articles you translate?

Anyone can take part in this event. We hope both inexperienced and seasoned editors will join us in creating biographies and other articles about women in gender studies, as well as their achievements, writings, organizations, and awards. This virtual editathon allows enthusiasts wherever they may be to participate in our initiative. Contributors are of course also welcome to add articles on any other notable women who deserve to be covered, for example under our #1day1woman priority.

The main goals of the event are:

to encourage inexperienced editors and show them how they can contribute to Wikipedia by creating biographies of some of the world's most prominent women
to draw the attention of more experienced editors to the need for concerted action on a specific area
to support Wikipedia in combating the systemic bias against the coverage of women and women's works
to promote the new/improved articles and images through social media (Facebook, Pinterest, Twitter)

What else?

Below, you'll see a section where you can list the articles you create this month, and another section where you can add the images you have uploaded to Commons.
This essay on creating women's biographies and our Ten Simple Rules might be helpful to newer editors.
If you tweet about any of the articles, or upload any of the images to Pinterest, please indicate you have done so next to the article name.

Thank you!

Redlists (lists of redlinked articles to be created) edit

A wide variety of redlink lists can be found on our Redlist index. Some of those relating to gender studies are listed below:

Gender studies (consisting both of an extensive crowd-sourced listing by country and of a Wikidata list created automatically mainly on the basis of articles in other language versions of Wikipedia)

Add other red links here, if possible with a source: