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Article Evaluation- Women's Rights in India

• Is everything in the article relevant to the article topic? Is there anything that distracted you? Yes, the article starts off by talking about the history of women in India, starting during Ancient India, then goes on and talks about the harmful treatment women and girls in India still face today.
• Is the article neutral? Are there any claims, or frames, that appear heavily biased toward a particular position? The article is neutral however leans more towards being biased towards women, which makes sense because they are the ones being mistreated.
• Are there viewpoints that are over represented, or underrepresented? No, the viewpoints surrounding the conditions which women go through in India are represented just right.
• Check a few citations. Do the links work? Does the source support the claims in the article? Yes
•  Is each fact referenced with an appropriate, reliable reference? Where does the information come from? Are these neutral sources? If biased, is that bias noted?Yes, all of the sources are extremely reliable and take you to different links on Wikipedia, for example when they mentioned education in India, you can click on the word education and it takes you to a completely different article specifically for education in India.
• Is any information out of date? Is anything missing that could be added? No, it seems pretty up to date, because the article includes information from the past to present day.
•  Check out the Talk page of the article. What kinds of conversations, if any, are going on behind the scenes about how to represent this topic? There aren't very many.
• How is the article rated? Is it a part of any WikiProjects? It is not a part of any WikiProjects
• How does the way Wikipedia discusses this topic differ from the way we've talked about it in class? This article is specifically focusing on women's rights in India, which is something we haven't discussed in class yet.

Choose Your Topic/ Find your sources

For my topic I am choosing to focus on Women's Rights in India. I chose this topic because I wanted to focus my human rights project on women's rights in other countries, and one of the first topics that came up was about women in India. After looking through the article I saw that one of the sections was extremely short. This section was titled Women's education in India. The section only talked a little bit about the education women in India received, and focused more on the education that boys received which was not available for girls. I wanted to learn more about why education isn't seen as a priority for girls, and what they're education consists of, but there was not anything on this topic. Due to this, I decided to choose this as my topic which I am going to add on to.

This topic is extremely important to human rights because denying education to women should be considered a violation to human rights, especially since boys in India are allowed to have a proper education. This idea reminded me of the Declaration of the Rights of Women, and how women were denied natural rights that were automatically granted to men. Although we don't have to worry about women being denied an education in the United States, women still face discrimination in many other ways, and we should be aware of the treatment of women in other countries as well.

Online Article Sources- https://www.census.gov/population/international/files/wid-9801.pdf

https://www.theguardian.com › World › Development › Universal primary education

safecity.in/the-status-of-womens-education-in-india/

https://www.importantindia.com/.../women-education-its-meaning-and-importance/

Academic Article Outline- Why girls in India are still missing out on the education they need

This article starts off with a personal examples of what a girl encountered on her way to school

• Meena was being harassed by the neighborhood boys on her way to and from school
• She did not tell her parents about these encounters because she didn't want her parents to take her out of school
• Another girl named Gulafsha had the opportunity to go to school however the conditions of the school were horrific.

• There was only one teacher over three classes, filthy drinking water and bathroom conditions.

In India many girls attend private school but drop out of school after they finish

• Many girls stop their schooling after primary school, whereas the boys continue to further their education
• It is seen as a waste of money to have girls continue schooling, because around the ages of 14-16, many of them will be sent of to be married or start families.
• Many girls who do have the opportunity to continue their education drop out do to harassment and being teased by their male classmates\
• Instead they learn how to properly raise a family, and do housework.

The article goes on to talk about the conditions of the schools girls were allowed to attend

• The buildings were described as small dark spaces with limited room for large amounts of girls.
• There were low benches and desks
• No teachers were present
• Giant gates surrounded the learning space

Next we learn more about how the harassment of girls is being treated

• There has been extensive cases of girls being harassed, raped, and even killed on their way to school
• This is having a huge effect on the amount of girls who want to go to school.
• Officials say they are trying to make the issue go away, but many authority figures such as police just watch as the girls are being teased
• As of 2008 there were around 61 million children in India who were not in school

Week 9

I will be contributing to the Wikipedia article titled " Women in India. " In this article there is a section on the education which women in India receive. I decided to work on the education section of this article, because it was one of the shorter sections of the article and did not have all of the information which I wanted to know about women's education in India. The education section of this article starts off by explaining that the literacy and school enrollment rate of girls in India is way less than the literacy and school enrollment rate of boys in India. The article goes on to state that the learning conditions for women are terrible and then this section finishes by giving statistics of the amount of boys enrolled in school compared to women. When reading this section of the article I realized that there were many pieces of information and topics which were left out. For example by reading this article I would never be able to learn why more girls aren't in school. I also would like to know what girls who aren't in school learn at home or what they are doing with all of their free time. For my contribution to this Wikipedia article I will add information on why it isn't seen as important to educate girls, what girls go through in order to obtain an education, the learning and school conditions girls experience, and if there have been any movements which advocate for more education of girls in India. The sources I will use for information are:

www.cnn.com/2013/01/12/world/asia/india-women-challenge/index.html

safecity.in/the-status-of-womens-education-in-india/

https://www.theguardian.com › World › India

Women's Education in India Draft 1st Draft

Women in India obtain a different form of education compared to their male counterparts. It is extremely common for women In India to only go through primary school and obtain the rest of their education at home. Most Indian girls that have the opportunity to get an education have to go through extreme conditions. On the way to school many girls have to worry about being sexually assaulted and harassed on their way to school. The conditions of their schools are disastrous compared to the all boy schools. The all girls schools are over crowded, with unsanitary conditions, and improper learning materials. As a result many girls dropped out of school and dedicated the rest of their early life towards helping out around the house. Many Indian families put more effort into educating their sons, and as a result families with multiple children only pay for the education for their sons. Many people believe that spending money on educating girls is a as waste of money because their main goal should be learning how to properly raise a family, and take care of the household. Women who do go on to obtain a higher education have experienced being the only ones in many of their courses and are singled out and targeted for their gender.

Women's Education in India Response to peer review

This article will be added to the " Women in India" wikipedia page under the education and economic development section. My piece will be added after the "according to 1992-93 figures" sentence, and before the "though it is gradually increasing" sentence, because my piece explains why so many girls are not in school. without my piece this section of the article jumps right into facts about literacy rates in India increasing, without even explaining why they were down in the first place.

Women in India obtain a different form of education compared to their male counterparts. It is common for women in India to only go through primary school and obtain the rest of their education at home. Indian girls that have the opportunity to get an education . On the way to school girls have to worry about being sexually assaulted and harassed. Schools for girls tend to be over crowded, unsanitary, and have improper learning materials. As a result many girls dropped out of school and dedicated the rest of their early life towards helping out around the house. In India, it is important to put more effort into educating the sons of the family. Due to this, families with multiple children only pay for the education for their sons. In India, spending money on educating girls is a as waste of money and their main goal should be learning how to properly raise a family and take care of the household. Women who do go on to obtain a higher education have experienced being the only ones in many of their courses and are singled out and targeted for their gender.

Sources

https://www.census.gov/population/international/files/wid-9801.pdf

safecity.in/the-status-of-womens-education-in-india/

https://www.theguardian.com › World › Development › Universal primary education