Grants:IdeaLab/Gender Gap and female wikipedist

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Gender Gap and female wikipedist

Wikipedia Argentina and IIPE UNESCO decided to make a serious of activities to resolve the lack of female wikipedist.

community organizer• Anna Torres (WMAR)• Melina Masnatta (WMAR)• Giselle Bordoy WMAR

Project Idea

Wikipedia Argentina and IIPE UNESCO decided to make a series of activities to resolve the lack of female wikipedists. For that reason we decided to do three activities during March.

The first one is a work meeting with several referents in technology and gender. In that meeting we debate around the main problems that females professionals are living in their lives.

• Day: 03/05/2015
• Place: Auditorium IIPE UNESCO, Buenos Aires[1], Argentina.

The second idea is to do an Editatón about Gender Gap in Argentina. [2].

• Day: 03/21/2015
• Place: Auditorium IIPE UNESCO, Buenos Aires, Argentina

The third activity is to do a webinar about digital rights in Argentina.

• Day: 26/03/2015
• Place:Auditorium IIPE UNESCO, Buenos Aires [3], Argentina

Project goals

• Doing a brief introduction of Wikipedia like a tool of free knowledge.
• Generated articles in Wikipedia about gender gap.
• Discuss the problem of gender gap in the Argentinian society.

Get Involved

We invited everyone who wants to discuss gender gaps and would like to learn how to edit in Wikipedia.

Endorsements

• The empowerment of women in all aspect of life and society is integral to gender equality proclaimed by international human rights law and norm. LilyKitty (talk) 14:11, 6 March 2015 (UTC)
• Endorse, on the condition that these activities get reasonable media coverage, specially online. Langus-TxT (talk) 19:00, 7 March 2015 (UTC)